Please suggest college for comp sci major for below average student

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Anonymous wrote:Cal State
California Lutheran
Pepperdine
San Diego State

lots of options

SDSU? Doubtful. My DS got rejected by SDSU this year (2022-23). These were his stats -

1560 SAT (I know CA is test blind), 4.0UW, 4.6W, 12 APs with 5.0 in 11, captain of school speech club, multiple coding projects etc etc. He got rejected by SDSU and CalPoly-SLO. CS is very competitive in California for CSU's and UC's.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some good ideas here. But I recommend that your student look in detail at the curriculum required at the universities for CS majors. Most require (for the major, as part of the college curriculum) some level of calculus, linear algebra, discrete mathematics and sometimes two semesters of a lab science. Has your student taken CS classes? Do they like math well enough? I say this not to discourage, but just to prepare. And the requirements vary between schools and sometimes between a BA and BS at the same school.

Also, maybe look at Elon. Good luck!

yea, my DS is at UMD as a CS major, and the math is heavy. DS is a math whiz, so he has no issues with the hard math classes, but I know that a lot of other kids do.

So, if your kid doesn't like math, he will struggle. Alternative is to major is something like data science or IS rather than CS.

My son is in a data science major because he loves math and stats. There are more math/stats classes in this major than in the school's CS major. I absolutely would not recommend it for someone who doesn't like math.

However, a business IT major might be a good option.

This^^^ If you kid struggled in HS math and could only get Cs, they may really struggle in Data science or CS. Both require a mathematical mindset to do well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cal State
California Lutheran
Pepperdine
San Diego State

lots of options

SDSU? Doubtful. My DS got rejected by SDSU this year (2022-23). These were his stats -

1560 SAT (I know CA is test blind), 4.0UW, 4.6W, 12 APs with 5.0 in 11, captain of school speech club, multiple coding projects etc etc. He got rejected by SDSU and CalPoly-SLO. CS is very competitive in California for CSU's and UC's.

I know this. But many of the Cal Sate colleges have very high acceptance rates and if you have a student with stats like your own kid's applying to those colleges is a possibility. Cal Poly San Luis excepted, because it is competitive.

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Honestly, for the people saying GMU, the com sci program is very rigorous

What CS program that is worthwhile is not going to be rigorous?

The obvious advantage of GMU is that it is very affordable and very close. If the kid flames out then at least you haven't spent a bunch of money on it.

But OP's friend's kid doesn't have the GPA or test scores to make that likely happen, especially for a major in Comp Science

[Anonymous]

https://admissions.msu.edu/apply/first-year/admission-criteria

MSU

Fall 2022 first-year profile*
Entering class: 9,676
High school GPA: 3.5-4.0
Composite ACT: 23-29
Total SAT: 1130-1350
*middle 50% of enrolled first-year students

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you all. I should have said we're not local, so appreciate ideas anywhere in the country.

I’m sorry, but you’re being ridiculous. You’re asking posters in the Washington DC area to suggest colleges all over the entire country. There are thousands of them. It is really bizarre that you are on this website.

DP but I get why OP is here. There is no other message board similar to it. There used an nyc based site called urban baby. Otherwise, there’s just Reddit. DCUM fills a void for a certain group of people.

Yeah well, they should GET OFF MY LAWN![/quote] The heat and humidity sure is making people irritable around here.

[Anonymous]

As someone said - look at Business Info Systems (BIS) vs pure CS


BIS has courses related to programing, data science and should be easier to get into a T50 college