Chance Me - Indian Boy (International)

aunt_bea
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:27:06 +0000

Agree with @austinmshauri. Most of the universities have weedout classes before you can even begin to take the CS courses and labs. The GPA has to be at or above 3.5 which is very hard to do when everyone else is also bright and competitive.
Some universities have prerequisite lectures with 400 to 500 students in a section, and lab classes. The CS department may only take 30 students per semester (as was the case at my daughter’s UC school).

If you think that’s easy to do, it is not. The GPA includes courses required for general education units. For students who are international, they struggle with the social science/humanities requirements and the amount of reading/writing involved in those courses. Domestic students are familiar with multitasking and are strong in these areas. Add the CS prerequisites, with group lab grades, and weeding, plus navigating the universities and coordinating daily living needs, and it gets complicated. There just are too many strong students trying to get into CS, so it is impacted at most universities in the US.