I recently got accepted into the CS major and heard that it is heavily impacted and most students take 4+ years to graduate. Will I be able to get the classes I need? My other option is CS at UCSC. What do you think? Thanks!
It is very impacted. I live in the local area, and almost all of my friends who got into an impacted major struggle to get classes. Speaking from my boyfriends experience, he goes to ucsc and loves it, he’s doing robotic engineering, however. try your best to get in contact with students who currently attend with your major (you can usually call the Uni and ask to speak to a professor or student from your major) and see how you feel after that.
Just out of curiosity, what are you’re stats? Me and everyone I know of got waitlisted for CS.
I heard it’s super hard to get into classes:/
I also heard it’s impossible to get classes. Be prepared to stay longer than expected.
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Any idea why people go for CS in Pomona if this is the case with most students?
good program, not a lot of people know just how impacted it is. depends on the situation.
@lenoid I think CS in general is nearly impacted everywhere because people are realizing that’s where the jobs are. I can’t speak for other students, but I personally wanted to go to CPP for CS because the school is recognized for it and graduates tend to have quite a few job offers after graduation. Even while impacted, I still feel it’s worth it.
I think people are confusing the meaning of the term “impacted”. This means is more difficult to get in, thus limiting the number of students in the program. This typically means that classes are smaller, especially if there’s a policy to allow only major students to enroll in departmental classes. Such is the case in Architecture where studio classes are limited to 20 students. In any case, 2500 applicants and 700 acceptances last year for CS.
Impacted does not just mean the department is difficult to accept incoming students. Because difficulty of getting in is caused by how many students are already in the department and how many classes are available to those students. So just because you are lucky enough to get in doesn’t mean you can get all the classes you need because the department is already near or at capacity. Personally speaking, I have friends from CPP that are taking classes at local CC because they can’t get into those classes at CPP.
@rashomon369 , In general, major classes are not transferrable from CCs. Only general education courses are. I still believe that impacted major classes are generally not more difficult to get into than regular major courses. It depends on departmental policies regarding who can actually take those classes. I can vouch that architecture classes are not open to non-architecture major students (not even landscape architecture or urban planning students), making the classes more focused and basically guaranteed to get into. I think the “impacted” designation is more of a positive than a negative, granted ones first gets accepted.
@mrsleonore Some CS major classes designated as transferrable by Assist.org are indeed transferrable. For instance, Mt Sac offers more than a dozen transferrable lower division major classes to CPP. I can’t speak for architecture because it is a completely different department, students there might very easily get into their classes. But this is certainly not the case for CS students who must attend CCs because they can’t get their classes at CPP.
https://www.cpp.edu/~academic-programs/graduation-pledge/
CPP is the only CSU I know of that offers a 4 year graduation pledge. Read it for yourself.