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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don't seem to understand that the kids that graduate from a CS program and typically much more intelligent that the others who didn't, especially considering the competition to get into those programs over the past several years.  Do you think they won't be able to figure out their careers relative to someone who majored in, what, English?[/quote]

Omg is this a joke? Like a caricature of how stupid people can be? You actually think a CS degree means someone is smarter than someone with an English degree?   It's absurd that people think that all these code monkeys who can do math well are definitively smarter than people in other fields.  The ignorance is really astounding.[/quote]
NP.  I was an English major and have learned CS on the job.  CS is a very, very much more intellectually challenging field than English.

But that’s beside the point. PPP’s point was that with the intense competition for admission to CS schools, the average graduate tends to be a lot smarter than the average English or Education major because only top students are being admitted to CS programs.  Sure, there are very bright people majoring in English, just like there are probably some great athletes pursuing curling.  But those curlers are, on average, very much worse athletes than NBA players because the barrier to entry to become a curler is, like to become an English major, almost nonexistent. [/quote]

I don't know where you did your English major, but from personal experience, an English major (at least at a top 10 USNWR school) is NOT less challenging intellectually than comp sci and, in fact, may be more. English is much more than just reading and writing.[/quote]

DP but clearly this is the hill you want to die on. When I was in college, before CS was huge, so many freshmen dropped being pre-med or the engineering college because they couldn’t do decently in the courses. I couldn’t hack Chemistry and switched to Neuroscience. I personally have never met someone who had to drop a humanities major. But it’s fine, you can keep telling yourself English in harder than Computer Science if you want to.[/quote]

And you can keep on listening in your own echo chamber. If you ever leave that chamber you will realize that things are seldom so black and white. But people like you go thru life never evolving. Sad.[/quote]

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