how popular is the cs major

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Among undergrads what percent of the class takes it? I also heard that it's more laid back compared to Berkeley and MIT EECS. Is this true?</p>

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<p><a href="http://registrar.stanford.edu/pdf/student_stats_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://registrar.stanford.edu/pdf/student_stats_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>There are 129 undergrads in the major. Out of 6689 undergrads, that's 1.93%.</p>

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<p>^you can't really count the 3497 undeclared students</p>

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<p>I don't really have a basis for comparison, but I do believe that CS majors are pretty laid-back here. Some of the coolest guys I've met here are undergrad CS majors. They're not nerdy, nor do they conform to other general CS stereotypes. So, I suppose yes, they are very laid back and sociable folks.</p>

<p>As to the percentage, it seems that there has to be more than 1.93%. There are quite a few people here in the dorm who want to do CS, CSE, and EE majors (and have been taking several of the classes), and I know many upperclassmen who are currently in the major.</p>

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<p>Stanford does have a lot of humanity majors though, doesn’t it?</p>

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<p>^^ yes, a huge portion of the student body majors in the humanities, and even more in the social sciences.</p>

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<p>On a side note, you can watch the Stanford CS106A lectures online on Stanford’s youtube channel (youtube.com/stanford). The teacher–Mehran Sahami–is great, interesting guy. You can also do the homework that was assigned during those lectures by going to the CS106A website.</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>supersizeme</p>