Which School do I choose as a Computer Science Major?

ucbalumnus
Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:53:51 +0000

1NJParent:

Only very few still place no restriction.

More than very few, if you look beyond the usual colleges that people on these forums focus on.

For example, the CSU system has 21 campuses that offer CS as a major. At 12 of them, CS is not impacted, meaning that the campus’ baseline admission thresholds (which may be competitively determined at the campus level) will admit to the CS major. At 9 of them, CS is impacted, but 7 of those have all majors impacted, which means that the major’s admission threshold is competitively determined separately from the campus or other majors at the campus.

calstate.edu

ImpactedProgramsMatrix.pdf

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It would not be surprising if this were the case for less selective colleges generally, since CS (like engineering majors) has a “hard” reputation that scares off many of the students at less selective colleges.

It is at colleges where selectivity is like that of popular state flagships where the number of students who want to study CS and are academically capable of doing so tends to exceed the department’s capacity.