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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are things at the smaller liberal arts colleges, like Williams, Swarthmore or Amherst?[/quote]
Swarthmore is a mess and is rationing out CS courses, because it's such a problem. Williams and Amherst are fine. Pomona, well known on this forum, is stretched beyond imagination with about 2x the amount of CS majors of Williams and Amherst, while being a smaller college.[/quote]

Carleton has a match system to help students get the CS courses they need (https://www.carleton.edu/computer-science/resources/registering-via-the-match/). My student is a non-major but has been able to take lots of higher-level CS courses.[/quote]
This seems like it would become overburdened after a few years in test phase. After a while, these type of ideas falter when Popular CS courses are offered such as AI, ML, etc. Likely a good amount of students are being denied courses they want, because they need to match appropriately for upper division classes.[/quote]

So far, so good. My kid is a rising senior and hasn't had trouble getting into CS classes.

When the Carleton class of 2024 declared their majors sophomore year, CS was the most popular major with 79 students (Second most popular major was biology, at 40 students.) For the class of 2025, it was 93 CS majors (and bio second at 58).[/quote]
Sad state for liberal arts majors[/quote]

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