Deferred from UW Madison EA 2024

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@anon94785555

To date all who desire the CS major can do it if they meet prerequisites.The elite students will likely take some classes for honors and more math.

btw- it is a misconception that CS is a harder major than some others. The difficulty of a major is determined by aptitude and background. For some math is easy but writing difficult. I would consider a math major more difficult than a CS one because of the abstract thought processing needed. btw- some CS and math courses are cross listed (ie same class but course listing in both depts).

A great thing about UW is that an entering student is not confined to the proposed major they enter with- or even school/college. Some majors have space limitations that make them competitive. Perhaps in the future CS will have limitations due to its vastly increased popularity in recent years. Supply and demand economics- not difficulty.

Students with less ability will likely find upper level courses too difficult to succeed in and will not graduate with any given major. Some with a poorer HS background may need to work harder, take more courses to succeed in any given major.

Let’s not glorify CS. Just another average major for those with a math bent instead of other fields. Remember that CS majors will pursue jobs in varying diversity of work and levels of skills needed to do well.

disclosure- son honors math major who added the CS major and now in CS work.

I don’t think anybody was saying it was a harder major…but in some schools it is a harder major to get into…more select, if you will.

I agree with your point, though. I was a Chemical Engineering major, which is considered a hard major, but it wasn’t hard for me. I got worse grades in all of my out-of-major classes.

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@wis75 “disclosure- son honors math major who added the CS major and now in CS work.”

First, thank you for all the feedback, suggestions, and tell-it-like-it is thoughts you have shared in various threads for UW-Madison. Greatly appreciate reading them! Very helpful and insightful!

Would love any feedback you may have on the Mathematics program at UW-Madison. That is my daughter’s major of choice. She is admitted for Fall 2020 and we were at UW-Madison yesterday for another tour, etc to help her with her decision. While we were there had an opportunity to stop in at Van Vleck at the Math Dept Office. Which Mathematics route did your son choose when combining with double major CS? Did your son graduate and is working in CS now? I wasn’t sure if that’s what you meant.

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when does RD come out?