<p>How difficult is CS and ECE? Do most undergrads finish these majors, switch to other majors, or leave CMU to do something else?</p>
<p>Your average student will have difficulty with the two majors but Carnegie Mellon recruits the best students across the nation for its CS and ECE programs. Most undergrads do indeed finish these majors and competition to transfer into CS or ECE from Engineering and other schools is quite high (in other words, high demand and little space).</p>
<p>Do you mean that students in the CIT want to transfer to SCS? And students in SCS and ECE stay there and finish the undergraduate programs?</p>
<p>How many students successfully transfer into SCS, from say, MCS? It's done at the end of freshman year, right?</p>
<p>Mostly its many CIT students wanting to transfer to ECE and a lot of random kids from all over wanting to transfer into SCS (which is very hard and has limited spacing). It depends on the year and space for any transfer so it is near impossible for anyone to claim chances of transfer. </p>
<p>However, you will need to complete 1 or 2 core classes to be considered as a transfer.</p>
<p>I think very few students are able to transfer into CS or ECE since most students which enroll in those programs are willing to work hard enough to get through them.</p>
<p>There were 27 guys on my hall freshman year; I'd say about 2/3 of them were engineers or CS, and only one or two switched out of engineering by the time they graduated.</p>