CS International Student

HydeSnark
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 04:57:47 +0000

Male to female ratio is no worse than 2:1 men to women (and probably much better, I never looked closely), which is pretty good as far as CS departments go. Compared to my state school, where I usually saw like 3 girls in a massive several hundred person lecture hall, Chicago CS is practically even.

All my programming experience outside of classes was programming competition type problems (and related projects on my own like playing around with Markov Chains, trees and maps and other data structures, graph searching algorithms etc. - I was always more of a theorist) and I found my background put me in a much, much better position than people with experience in web dev/app development like @puzzled123. If you want to get in a better position for UChicago CS I would recommend doing some Project Euler problems.

Most people did not have this experience. If anyone had programming experience beyond AP Comp Sci it was usually app development or web development and that’s pretty much useless when it comes to the 150s and 160s.