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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are restrictions on majors in almost every field at almost every school.  Love music but don't play an instrument or sing?  Can't major in music performance in any competitive department.  Want to major in bio but tanked your STEM courses freshman year?  GPA won't be high enough to declare until you raise it.  Undeclared rising junior who suddenly decided on French?  Likely can't get proficiency fast enough to graduate on time.  Want study business at school x but didn't make the bar for direct admit?  Could be out of luck.

Where Pomona screwed up was in laying out a lottery system in writing for people to criticize.  An objective application process would be preferable (and maybe they'll eventually go there), or even a direct admit process for freshmen.[/quote]

Pomona is very admittedly "woke" and is attempting to level the playing field, since there is a significant fgli population at the school, who, on average, have less expansive CS resumes. Funny enough, one of the students they banned this semester was a fgli friend of DC, but they are moving on with a math major. There hasn't been a big shift, since they are still accepting a ton of students into the major and a CS major isn't the end-all, be-all. It's definitely a sad situation, but CS departments didn't exist for a long time, and students can find alternative ways of learning. Many have a passive interest at-best anyway. [/quote]

Also, there are NOT restrictions on majors at many schools, beyond what one would expect.

For example: if you want to major in CS, you need to complete the first 2-3 courses with a C or C+ or better and complete calc 1 and discrete math.

That is very different than "we have 100 open spots for the 200 students that want to be CS majors.  Those with the highest GPAs get to major in CS".  Very very different.  The first simply says, "you must take the basic entry level courses and pass.  If you do, you get to major in it". The 2nd says, "you need a 3.9+ in your entry-level courses and a hail-mary/lottery ticket"

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