Going to undergrad twice?

Applying to College
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I’m about to complete my undergrad at NYU in economics but my passion has always been computer science since the very beginning. I was taking a few computer science classes my sophomore year but was told I wouldn’t be able to graduate on time so I continued pursuing an economics major because I had already taken most of the classes.

I’m about to graduate now and don’t have the technical skills to go to graduate school for computer science. Luckily my mom has been very supportive of me pursuing my dreams. Computer science and the skills that come along with it is something I am really motivated to study but I don’t know if it’s a good thing to spend maybe 2-3 more years at undergrad.

Question is…should I delay my graduation and stick it out at NYU for a couple more years, should I graduate and finish my bachelors at stony brook or should I not graduate and transfer to stony brook?

Please help me out.

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What do you mean by “about to graduate”? If you are scheduled to graduate this May, then just do that.

Check with NYU and the SUNY system about

  1. Enrolling as a non-degree student to take the CS classes that you would need in order to get in to grad school in that field.
  2. Admission for a second bachelor’s degree in CS.
  3. Enrolling in individual CS classes in order to get an entry-level CS job without a degree in that field.

Back in the stone age, a couple of years after graduating from college I changed fields of study entirely by enrolling in my cheap home-state public U as a “senior transfer” so that I could get priority registration for the classes I wanted. I didn’t complete a second undergrad degree, because I didn’t need to. After a year of undergrad and grad credits, I applied to grad school and moved on.

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Can you pay out of pocket for more years at NYU? It’s a very expensive university…
If you graduate, you can’t receive financial aid for a second BA/BS.
Since you’re so close to graduating with a BA in Economics from NYU (a strong major from an excellent university), your choices depend on how much money your parents have

  • if they don’t have this kind of money out of pocket, graduate, find a job, and take part-time classes until you’ve saved enough to go full time.
  • if they have enough, stay at NYU one more year, completing your Economics major and adding a CS minor.
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What about graduating and then signing up for a post-baccalaureate program in computers?