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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The better private universities.

Stanford
MIT
Princeton
CMU
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Hopkins
Penn
Cornell

A lot of publics might be better ranked in CS, but it's a pain and a slog getting a degree with so many 500/1000+ intro classes. Berkeley alone has CS classes with more than 1700 students.[/quote]
Of that list with CS issues, Cornell ( [url]https://cornellsun.com/2023/01/31/computer-and-information-science-students-struggle-with-course-enrollment-adding-stress-instead-of-classes/[/url] ), Penn ( [url]https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/03/computer-science-classes-coding-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia[/url] ), Johns Hopkins ([url]https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2017/02/over-500-waitlisted-for-comp-sci-classes[/url] ), Duke potentially ([url]https://www.reddit.com/r/duke/comments/n0905v/duke_cs_concerns_is_it_really_as_bad_as_some_say/[/url] ) and Rice potentially ( [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/riceuniversity/comments/4h32r9/how_is_rice_cs/[/url] ).
[b]It has been a nightmare at DC's college, Umich, [/b]and I am very pessimistic about colleges ability to change this.[/quote]

Can you elaborate? DC (rising senior) has never had issues with getting a class he wanted, is on track to graduate this semester with a minor. Several of his friends have already graduated (in 3 years) without issues. [/quote]
Hey, DC just graduated from Mich! It's not a graduating issue, but likely a fit issue. He chose to go to a university, because he was advanced in computer science and wanted grad-level coursework/PhD (and the support wasn't great also takes forever for office hours in some courses). By his junior year, the courses he was looking to take all were immediately gone with long waitlists, and he felt like he was still scrambling after underclassmen years. It's definitely softening after first year admission restriction changes. By the time he wanted to try out grad school courses, he was met with a lot of resistance and realized it wasn't going to happen.[/quote]

I feel like this is a big issue that gets discounted quite a bit.  Not to pile on Berkeley but the tour guide and admissions said that you can graduate on time, but you may never get 100% of the classes you really wanted.

Maybe 98% of kids don’t care…but it’s something you need to consider.[/quote]
For what it's worth, DS24 is going to UMD for CS. He was able to get all the classes he wanted, though one is not at an ideal time. They have cut the CS class in half, so hopefully that will make scheduling easier for everyone in the future.[/quote]
+1 For three semesters, DS HS 23 at UMD, has been able to get all  CS classes wanted, just not necessarily the first choice for time/instructors [/quote]
CS Major DC at UMD, second year but a senior (thanks to a generous number of AP/IB credits).   They've also been able to get all the CS courses they wanted so far, albeit some not at the time they wanted (cause 9am is too early  :roll: ).

I think the changes to the UMD CS admissions will definitely help with class sizes and ease of getting classes going forward.   That change was made after DC's year, so DC's lower level CS courses are still fairly large (200 or so?), but I think it will get better for future CS students.[/quote]

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