Current CS Senior at UMD - ask me anything

sl4122
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:32:32 +0000

Hi! I applied for the CS LEP after my grades were finalized from the first fall semester. It is extremely important that you wait until the requirements are 100% fulfilled because if by some chance your child withdraws or fails a class or doesn’t meet any other requirement, the application will automatically be rejected. That would be really bad because you only get one chance to apply to transfer to CS. Yes it is quite easy to finish the CS degree in 3 or 3.5 years. I could have graduated with both my math and CS degrees in just three years if I chose to. However, after covid struck my freshman year, I decided that I at least wanted some normal college experience and essentially extended my experience to four years by taking a gap semester where I did a remote internship from College Park and by adding another minor. Basically, I paid for 3.5 years of college, but was in College Park for 4 years. It is actually quite common to graduate early, at least in my experience. Around half of my friends are graduating early.