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<li><p>Why in the world would you think Computer Science was not a fairly popular major anywhere?</p></li>
<li><p>It’s easy to look up the declared majors of Chicago students; the university publishes a census every quarter. Here’s the most recent one <a href=“http://registrar.uchicago.edu/sites/registrar.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/pdf/statistics/eoq/EOQ.Spring2013.pdf”>http://registrar.uchicago.edu/sites/registrar.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/pdf/statistics/eoq/EOQ.Spring2013.pdf</a> </p></li>
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<p>Out of about 3,900 students with declared majors (and about 5,000 majors declared, i.e., about a quarter of the students have double majors declared), there were 115 Computer Science majors, and 50 East Asian Languages and Civilizations majors. There were lots more Economics majors (840) and various types of science majors (about 960), but together they add up to less than half of the students. Certainly Economics and Biology are the two biggest majors, but good luck finding any elite university where those two aren’t among the top majors.</p>
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<li> There are certainly other universities with bigger, more popular Computer Science and/or Chinese programs, but most of them are even tougher to get into than Chicago. (Stanford leaps to mind. Harvard, too, but people sometimes complain about its Computer Science department.) Some of the best Computer Science programs are at places where you wouldn’t necessarily go to study Chinese, but I’m sure all of them offer the ability to take lots of Chinese, one way or another.</li>
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