On my application I declare Political Economy as my major but I also mention in my essay that I would want to major in computer science. I know that computer science is not Georgetown’s biggest or most prestigious department, but could someone chime in on their experience with it?
We took my junior son there who was planning to study CS (we were already in town and my wife wanted to see it). They had a tiny CS lab with nothing but Macs, and he refused to even take the campus tour. So he sat in the lab working on a project. We did look at the breadth of classes and it was not great. But we have no direct experience. Look on their web site and count how many (non-redundant class in the CS catalog). Compare that with U Rochester as one school with great undergrad comp sci breadth.
One of my son’s majors is computer science and he is not impressed. He loves Georgetown but says that without an engineering school, GT cannot retain enough talented professors to teach computer science. On the other hand, though, he has several senior friends who have gotten jobs in the tech sector. Recruiters say that you learn how to program when you get to the job. You learn how to work hard at Georgetown.
There are not many CS majors at Georgetown, but they are absolutely killing it in the job search right now. Also, you have to keep in mind CS minded students in the SFS are usually STIA majors and are counted as such