<p>Seeing as I fall short of CMU's applicant pool for SCS, perhaps there is another way.</p>
<p>Is it possible to switch majors after you have been accepted? Because I think I could easily make it into the humanities (English and social studies are no brainers for me, thats why I hate them), go for a year, and then switch my major to SCS. Is there anything stopping me from doing this?</p>
<p>When you apply you can rank what schools you want to get into. You can still put SCS first and put other schools afterwards. </p>
<p>Switching majors into SCS requires taking CS classes and doing well in them. My roommate freshman year came in as physics major, but he took the exact same CS classes as me and did very well in them. The associate dean allowed him to transfer easily in fall of sophomore year.</p>
<p>The things that make you unique are great. Few applicants to SCS have written a full novel or published their own albums. Showing a passion for CS is crucial, because they want to know that you'll stick with it and go through all the hard classes, and that after you'll graduate you'll do something cutting edge. So I would definitely focus on how you created a game in your spare time, and probably used a lot of other inter-disciplinary skills to do it.</p>
<p>CMU admissions also likes to advertise that the school is really inter-disciplinary, and they note the good fine arts schools and engineering schools as evidence. So it'll probably help you to show case your well-roundedness.</p>
<p>Your low math SAT score is the thing that's going to hurt the most, the CS program here is definitely pretty math heavy. It will help a lot to bring that up higher. But actually other than that, I would not consider you as "falling short" of SCS's applicant pool. </p>
<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>Wow, so you don't have to pick one school all-or-nothing? I could, for instance, apply to SCS as my #1 choice and the Humanities as #2? If so, that's fantastic.</p>
<p>I can do very well in CS classes, because I generally just love to program, so I think if I can't get into SCS but can get into humanities and take CS classes my freshman year I might have a shot. Thanks.</p>
<p>There's a lot of prior discussion on this subject - in general, it can be difficult to switch into SCS but it's possible. And yes, you can apply to multiple colleges - just a little extra on one essay question (i.e., why do you want to be in each college).</p>
<p>You can do this - but is it really worth the trouble and risk? I mean there are tons of places where you can study CS undergrad - CMU CS is really good obviously but if you want to do cs you can do it anywhere undergrad. If you really want to do this then I'd suggest doing math or something similar to CS...it is very possible and actually you could probably just declare cs as a second major but make sure it's worth all of the trouble. SCS isn't the only CS program out there, and if you think you can do well anywhere then being at the top of your class at another school could be a good option. Good luck whatever you choose to do.</p>