<p>CS at RPI is hard… CS I wil be easy, but CS 2 (Data Structures) and CS 4 (Algorithms) are hard. Very hard… Your son can expect to put 20-40 hours of work into CS 2 with the amount of programming. Also, CS 4, is worse because the material is very difficult to wrap around. I was a Computer Systems Engineer, but I switched to Electrical Engineering because I couldn’t handle CS 2.</p>