Hello All, I have looked on various college websites to determine if they have direct admission to computer science major regardless of qualifying criteria. I know UW, WPI, Rice, Yale and Brown have direct admit. Can someone please list other schools preferably in CA, FL and northeast-or point me to a previous thread with this information? Thanks in advance.
All the UC’s have a direct admit option to CS along with a couple campuses which offer CS also in the College of Letters and Sciences where you have pre-req courses and GPA requirements before declaring the major.
All the California State Universities (Cal States/CSU’s) are direct admit.
These are the CA schools I am familiar with so hopefully other CC posters can chime in on the CA private schools such as USC, Santa Clara, Stanford, Harvey Mudd etc…
USC: must be in engineering division; declaring CS requires C grades in beginning CS courses: https://catalogue.usc.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=11&poid=10893&returnto=3756
Stanford: no direct admission, but declaring CS appears non-competitive: https://cs.stanford.edu/degrees/undergrad/Declare.shtml
Note that some campuses with direct admission may admit some CS applicants as undeclared or in a second choice major. In this case, an applicant receiving an admission letter needs to check that direct admission to the CS major is included with admission to the campus.
Colleges with unrestricted curricula such as Amherst and Hamilton offer free access to all majors to students in satisfactory academic standing (e.g., a minimum 2.0 GPA in relevant courses), as do similarly structured universities such as the University of Rochester (and Brown). In the Northeast this aspect is so common that a complete list of potential college choices would be too extensive to list, it seems.
Thanks guys!