I am shooting for the Comp Sci Business honors program next year. I want to do a computer science project or business project to show my interest for the subjects. My question is: does UT Austin even care about that? Will they look at my comp sci project if I send it to them, and how much do they care about me doing computer science or entrepreneur stuff outside of school?
While I am not personally familiar with the CSB program, I believe that an extracurricular project can definitely help, especially if you can work on it throughout the summer or such. Also, I think you can elaborate about it on your resume or weave it into a short answer response too.
CSB was new for next year’s entering freshmen and very competitive. I think they were only taking around 40 for 20 seats. Or it might have been 40 seats total, I can’t quite remember, but either way not many. They definitely want you to have a strong CS background as well as the some business background and the higher math requirements already. My daughter applied for it, but did not receive an interview for it but was accepted into BHP. She actually had more programming experience than business experience, but McCombs over CNS was her first choice. I think it’s a program they expect to grow each year as they have with Turing, but nothing is a given especially as applications continue to increase and the applicant pool just gets better and better.
She was thrilled to get into McCombs to begin with, and then BHP was another thrill, especially being OOS, so not getting into CSB was not a let down at all. Every other school she applied to was for Computer Science/Engineering but decided to go this route instead. Go with your heart, if it is CS. Even if you don’t get into the combined program.