Help with Second Degree Computer Science in CUNY

shoshkabob
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:41:35 +0000

I’m doing the same thing (after a B.A. in Music from Yeshiva University). I was told by many New Yorkers whose siblings attended various schools that City College is known to have the best engineering department, and C.S. is part of this department there. I sat down with an admissions counselor at City College and he told me that the C.S. department requires Calc I, Calc II, and a Calc-based Physics just to apply for the major. (I applied for liberal arts for now.)
The website suggests that all the 4-year schools are a reach if your GPA is less than 3.0, but CUNY students usually say that a lower GPA isn’t a problem for most schools. I’ve heard that Baruch and Hunter are the ones to worry about, but Baruch doesn’t have C.S. and you’ve already done Hunter.
I am a bit worried b/c the admissions counselor at City College mentioned that 2.7 is the minimum GPA to apply to the CUNY system, and my own (college) GPA is a 2.6. People tend to think it doesn’t matter, but I’m scared it might?
As for the length of time, since a second degree is a transfer degree, the admissions counselor said that a C.S. degree could take up to 3 years only because of the sequential nature of some of the courses. I’m sure that it’s possible to get it done in 2 years if winter and summer sessions are taken advantage of.
Hope all this helps! Cool to see I’m not the only one :)