Current Upperclassman at Carnegie Mellon: ASK ME ANYTHING!

HSquared2
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:08:42 +0000

VK2003:

Hi, My son will be applying to CMU RD this year. He has been extremely interested in Materials Science and Chemistry throughout High school. He has done extremely well in Chemistry Olympiads and has worked summers at University battery labs and co authored a paper in a journal.
He would like to have the option to explore other fields of study while at University.
I understand switching majors to Comp Science is impossible at CMU. What about switching to other majors/other colleges within the University ?
tks

Hello @VK2003! Huge congratulations to your son - those sound like incredible achievements and I’m sure you’re very proud of him.

It is very difficult to switch into CS (you’re probably better off double majoring), here are the criteria for switching into SCS: [url = https://csd.cmu.edu/guidelines-transfer-dual-degree-minor-and-additional-major-cs]SCS Transfer Guidelines .

In my opinion, it’s easier to switch to other majors/colleges (with possibly the exception of the school of drama) - is there something specific you’re looking for?