But would some of the colleges be concerned about the CS major bucket overflowing, so they may now be adding a negative preferences to CS applicants even if they nominally do not admit by major (beyond the admission readers being bored by reading so many CS major applicants that may seem too similar)? Some of the wealthy private universities (like Stanford and Harvard) have rather huge enrollments in their CS classes, and some LACs (like Swarthmore and Pomona) have been rationing entry to CS classes or the CS major, which is typically something more commonly associated with large schools at the selectivity level of popular state flagships.
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