Switching to CS or Engineering majors

badgolfer
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 06:28:42 +0000

the answer is that you don’t need to worry, it isn’t a change you are likely to make anyway. If you really wanted to be an engineer or computer programmer you’d be asking where you could be admitted as one of those majors and that would be your school. Instead I think your question is really about keeping doors open, that in the event someday for some reason you decided that is what you wanted to do would it be possible to change majors. And for 2 schools of equal rank where it was easier at one then the other, you’d pick the school where it was easier. Of course many of the schools you list aren’t of equal rank so you’ll have no objective way to choose between school A where changing majors is hard and school B where it is relatively easier but the school isn’t ranked as high, although my gut sense is you’d go with A since this isn’t a change you may be likely to make.

I am a junior in high school right now and my grades aren’t too great.
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Maybe its just me, but “Ivy League tier schools” does not seem to be in the cards. Apply if you have the money and time to spend, but IMHO you’re time is better spent looking for schools that are likely to accept you & that you want to attend

Also, how hard is it for a person with a 4.0 and all A’s in the required courses (although rare) to switch to a computer science or engineering major?

For those people, it may not be hard. But if this is going to be you, why aren’t you doing it now in HS? Show yourself those dreams can be real by making an improvement senior year.