<p>Hello all, I am a Freshman this year and have a bit of a dilemma. I want to major in Computer Science, buy my current school (Tulane) does not have a CS program. I know your question; "why did you attend a school that doesn't have your major?" I came here on the promise o f faculty members who assured me that Tulane would develop a CS major soon. But it appears now that Tulane will probably not do so, and even if they pull it off, it will be unaccredited by the time I graduate (which is very bad).</p>
<p>So now I am left with a need to transfer. After doing some research, I discovered that Cornell's CS program ranks among the best in the world. I applied last year, but was rejected. This time around I have some advantages:
1) I started a website with high growth potential and will probably incorporate it as a company (this is a pretty neat extracurricular)
2) I might get a physics paper published, which would make me a published scientist.</p>
<p>And from high school...
1) 1500/1600 on the SAT
2) top 20% of HS class</p>
<p>Obviously, if they rejected me last year, my chances at transferring are not that great, but I might as well give it a shot.</p>
<p>Any thoughts/chances?</p>
<p>All you can do is try. It just depends on how much space they have and the competition for the slots. There are other schools with excellent CS that might fit you, such as Carnegie Mellon and Rice, along with many others. You seem to have the stats for it. Of course you just started at Tulane, so it will be critical that you get very good grades, but I didn’t need to tell you that.</p>
<p>I remember this discussion from the threads during your admissions cycle, and I posted very clearly that Dean Altiero said there would be no CS major in time for your class. <a href=“Computer Science - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums”>Computer Science - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums; You saw this, because you posted a few months later that you wanted to try and work with the Dean to put together a “temporary major”, and I clearly told you there was no such thing and the above warning. What is done is done, so no sense arguing about it now, but please at least take responsibility for your own informed decisions rather than passing all the blame onto Tulane.</p>
<p>Oh, and I would advise you to see a lawyer about that website and what protections you might be able to get. If it is has as much commercial potential as you think, someone else might realize that and copy it, and beat you to the market. I urge you not to be naive on this point.</p>