<p>Would it be easier to gain admission into Columbia if someone applied for computer science engineering?</p>
<p>Given the following stats etc....would you say that admission is likely?:</p>
<p>The person takes computer science at his school gets a 5 on the AP computer science tests and is interested in mathematics (mathematics by the way is related to computer science) etc. and won a small state-wide award in java programming</p>
<p>top 3%
95/100 gpa
toughest courseload possible
5's on all AP's
2250+ SAT
750~ on SAT IIs
Decent EC's with board positions etc..
mediocre awards
nice recs and essays</p>
<p>Since the person's applying for COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING, he does face less competition rite?</p>
<p>Same deal as for Princeton. I'd say your chances go up, just look at the admit rate for each school. However, you will not be able to switch to arts and sciences as easily as you want to if at all. I know at Penn you have to transfer into Wharton as any other student from another college would.</p>
<p>Easier than what? You don't apply to a major at Columbia. You either apply to the Engineering or College. Computer Science is in both. Computer Engineering is only in Engineering.</p>
<p>columbia 2002 said exactly want I wanted to say. I applied with computer science as an intended major, however I still applied as any other engineering student would to SEAS.</p>
<p>I don't think your intended major will make much of a difference unless you have been highly involved in related fields in highschool.</p>
<p>PS what do you mean by computer science engineering? there's computer science and there's computer engineering they are 2 very different fields -.-''</p>