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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what major[/quote]

Computer Engineering[/quote]

Computer Engineering is a HARD major!!! Can he change to something easier? I doubt it will be easy anywhere.[/quote]

yes, it can and likely will be significantly easier at many other schools.  CMU is most known for their CS/CompEng---they are up there with MIT.  Most in that program have 1570+ and 4.0+ gpa with 10+ AP credits.  They are a group of driven, studious, focused students.  It's a pressure cooker school in CS/Engineering---way beyond what even other Elite universities are.  The school is not known for being social and that group/majors certainly is NOT (typically).  The OP kid is very smart, he will succeed almost anywhere else, but his mental health matters and he needs to be happy for the 4 years.

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Just because a school attracts kids with high SATs does not mean their actual classes are harder than the same class a different school. If you can't comprehend Calc III at one school you will not magically "get it" at another school.[/quote]

I'm well aware of that.  However, I have a CS degree from a T10 university, and did graduate school at CMU.  I actually took Operating Systems (undergrad course) at BOTH universities, so I have actual experience with this.  Despite 2 more years of experience by the time I took it at CMU, it was still an extremely challenging course. So essentially, I was at a university just "slightly below CMU for CS" and the CMU course was extremely challenging even after I had already taken it 2 years earlier and earned an A.  So yes, I am confident in stating (from personal experience) that CMU CS is over the top and classes are significantly harder at CMU. 
And the only reason my "team" was great is because I was in a graduate program where we were all there from a specific company, so we knew each other and worked together---the general population at CMU CS were not that collaborative.

However, if I had not gone to CMU to get my grad degree, I would have still done well in life with just my BS degree in CS/Comp Eng.  I already had the tools to do the job and excel.  Only got the grad degree because the company paid for it and essentially required all new hires to get their MS (yeah I'm old...that used to be a thing in technology companies). However, I had over 10 job offers out of undergrad and choose that one because who wouldn't want to get their MS paid for while collecting their salary and benefits.  [/quote]

We had a bunch of kids from Bellcore in my grad program doing this.  They were paid a salary and had 12 months to get a MS. [/quote]

It's 15 months (or at least it used to be back at the start---and you must be in the first MS1-MS6ish because there were not many from bellcore after that), and were paid ~45% of the normal salary, all tuition/books/school expenses and collected vacation/sick days just like full time employees.  It was an awesome program to be a part of for so many reasons. [/quote]

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