Picking classes for senior year, prospective CS major - too late?

I’m going to be brutally honest with you. CS is just about the most competitive major at any school these days. Targeting CS at schools with a single digit overall acceptance rate is like buying a lottery ticket, except your odds might be better buying the lottery ticket. Those schools turn away thousands of students every year, and we aren’t talking about 1350/3.5 students either - 4.0/1600 students! There just isn’t enough space to accommodate all of the qualified applicants. Getting rejected isn’t going to be because you didn’t take AP European History.

That being said, take the classes that interest you and do the best that you can. Don’t just try and impress AOs at top schools. Apply to a dream school but really put your time and effort into identifying affordable, likely schools that you would be happy to attend, and that would be equally happy to have you there.

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