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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS applied for computer science. He did not get in to any top 50 in early action round, and I got the impression from these type of forums that regular decision was even more competitive. However, one top 40 deferral turned into an acceptance, and he was also accepted regular decision at a top 50. I would not say that I was worried at the time of the early action round, because it may not have been top 50, but he was accepted for an honors program and a respectable computer science department where he could have been happy too.[/quote]

CS is a much harder major to get into than basically any other major.  When people talk about admissions to a given school, the acceptance rates for different majors can be night and day. [/quote]
this is what we are finding, too.

DC has much higher stats than most of their peers, but shut out at T20 while the peers with lower stats getting in.. but, DC is a CS major, and the others aren't.

Major definitely matters.[/quote]

Which is actually fine because not all the generally top ranked schools are better or even very good for CS. Plenty of 40-100 schools have excellent CS programs and invest in them.[/quote]

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