This presents a more interesting problem than the article realizes. Computer Science has long suffered from overstuffed first year courses.... but only first y

This presents a more interesting problem than the article realizes. Computer Science has long suffered from overstuffed first year courses.... but only first year. By the second year, the vast majority of students have changed majors or otherwise left the computer science field. With even greater overcrowding of first-year courses, it probably makes it even harder for a person earnestly interested in computing to get in. At least when I attended school, every single person who gave their reason for choosing CS as 'I heard there was good money in it' was gone by the 3rd semester. I'm not entirely sure, but I've always suspected this might be due to the fact that while you can BS your way through an essay, you can't really do that with a compiler. Either that or a fundamental psychosocial resistance to hard-line logical thinking. In any case, perhaps they should factor this in somehow and do a bit of preparatory work to give potential students a real sense of what the work and subject is actually going to be like before they fill up the first year courses and just waste everyones time before dropping out?