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Lots of kids do the heavy duty programming courses as undergrads and it is not the norm (at least at CMU where over 90 kids out of a class of ca. 140 went straight to work) for comp sci majors to go straight to grad school. See: <a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/Career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/pdf/scs.pdf[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/Career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/pdf/scs.pdf</a></p>