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HSquared2
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 03:40:44 +0000

janu2481:

How hard is it to transfer from bio to computational bio? I didn’t know that comp bio was under scs…

Hello @janu2481! Yes, computational biology is a major offered within the School of Computer Science. Here’s more information about it: [url = http://www.cbd.cmu.edu/about-us/] Computational Biology , but it’s essentially the application of computational methods to biological questions, like genome sequencing!

In terms of transferring, you would need to transfer to the School of Computer Science first. Here is specific information on transferring: [url =http://www.cbd.cmu.edu/education/bs-in-computational-biology/guidelines-for-transfer/] Transfer into Comp Bio . Unfortunately, transferring has rather high GPA requirements in some rather tough SCS classes (at least a 3.6!), so the transfer rate into SCS is pretty low.

As an alternative, you can also double major in Comp Bio, which would not require you to transfer into SCS and it has a lower GPA requirement (3.0). Information here: [url = http://www.cbd.cmu.edu/education/bs-in-computational-biology/additional-major-in-computational-biology/] Comp Bio Additional Major .

Transfers and additional majors aren’t guaranteed depending on resources available, but don’t let this discourage you from applying! (I think that comp bio is really really cool.)