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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've hired plenty of software developers; Pomona is highly regarded.

To me it's disappointing but not shocking that a school with even its resources has to cap the number of CS majors. That's been going on for decades at larger public universities, and it was probably always a matter of time before we saw it happening at well endowed privates.

What's more disturbing, frankly, is the description posted about who gets to major. As I understand things, it comes down to random luck regarding who gets to register for the overcrowded classes before the deadline to declare. That's not how it should work. The best students should be given priority. Those with a higher GPA in related courses should have some registration advantage over those who did worse. I would be livid if I had a 4.0 child lose a seat in the major to someone with, say, a 3.0 because of pure randomness. Hopefully I am misreading things.
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You're understanding it correctly- it'd be random luck. They're not distinguishing between the strongest students to be able to continue with the major. I think it's a LAC thing to have completely open majors regardless of past experience or skill. Universities are the ones that make distinctions about who can study what discipline. [/quote]

There are plenty of non-LAC that have open majors.  Just have to look outside at smaller private universities (think 5-6K undergrads).  My engineering kid specifically targeted those, which is a good thing as they decided to add CS as a minor during freshman year.  It was simple, just register for the first 2 courses and get at least a C and you can minor in it (or major).  Would hate for my kid to be somewhere they couldn't do that with any major.  [/quote]

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