Do adcoms know the diff between Information Technology and Engineering?

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<p>Because I have a strong passion for technology and computers in general, I’m interested in majoring in Information Technology. I don’t have top stats like many on this board, but I wanted to know if adcoms KNOW that there’s e difference between Information Technology and Engineering. Information Technology/Sciences is NOT in the Engineering category. Are adcoms familiar with this difference? I wanted to know so I’m not wasting my time–it seems to me that they’re very few people who major in Information Technology/Sciences, I think most choose engineering (which is the hard major to get into). </p>

<p>Heres a description of the major:</p>

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<p>bump please anyone</p>

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<p>Even I would assume that people employed as admissions staff know the difference between different majors at their own institutions (and I have less automatic respect for adcom omniscience than many posters on CC.)</p>

<p>At many schools, both private and public, students apply directly to the School of Engineering if that is where their prospective major is located. In some cases, IT is found in the engineering school, but in other cases, it is located in arts and sciences. </p>

<p>A similar situation exists with computer science. Here and there my son came across a school at which computer science could be studied in either the College of Engineering or the College of Arts and Sciences. The requirements for admission were different in the two cases. More math and science, as you might expect, for applicants to engineering. </p>

<p>Look at the web sites of the schools you are interested in carefully. Look at the various majors listed in the different schools, if it is a university where students indicate that they are applying to a particular college within the university. Decide which program is the best for you.</p>

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<p>My friend is a freshman this year at Cornell’s Agricultural school majoring in Info Tech. He says the job market is booming for that field, and so he chose it over a more general computer science degree.</p>

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<p>Unless one is applying to a department or school at a university that has its own admissions requirements (as is the case for department/schools like nursing, business, engineering), your prospective major usually doesn’t matter because admissions officers know that most college students change their majors two times before graduation.</p>

<p>I would assume that admissions officers are familiar with the majors at the universities that they work for.</p>