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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. A[b]s I understand things, it comes down to random luck regarding who gets to register for the overcrowded classes before the deadline to declare. [/b]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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Don't forget kids who can pre-register like athletes. [/quote]
Athletes don't pre-register at Pomona. Never even knew colleges did that but sounds ridiculous. CS does have a pre-pre registration process however, and it's putting your name into the hat for lottery[/quote]

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