<p>Hi everyone! I am a senior in high school and a CMU prospective student. At CMU, is there a long, tedious process involved with switching majors and schools?
Thanks for your time!</p>
<p>I was wondering that myself. One of those “think he could get in for fine arts but not for CS” things.</p>
<p>Haha yea. My application as a history major is much stronger than if I applied straight to their college of engineering or science.</p>
<p>It’s entirely possible, but it’s a lot of hard work. You need to take a number of the most rigorous CS courses here (which all SCS students take anyway), and do well it them (which not all SCS students do). Do that, and it’s straightforward. But it’s a lot of work.</p>
<p>Having said that, why do you want to be in the School of Computer Science? You can double-major in Computer Science from any other college within the university without transferring. More broadly, every CS course is available to every student in any college, providing you have the internal pre-reqs.</p>
<p>The real world is not like high school/the college admissions department. Study what you really want to study, where you really want to study it. Carnegie Mellon has an unparalleled reputation in the job world because people know that <em>everyone</em> here works hard. If you have the skills a company needs, they simply are not going to say “Oh, well, he’s great at (for example, computer science and programming) but he’s in Dietrich, not SCS”. </p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon’s greatest strength is interdisciplinarity. If you really want to study something here, nobody will stand in your way. You just need to want it.</p>