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Are CS applications surging too? What about other fields? It seems like more people are applying to college in general. Both my current and previous university
by armchairhacker 5y ago
Are CS applications surging too? What about other fields? It seems like more people are applying to college in general.
Both my current and previous university, year after year keep having record numbers of applicants. And IIRC the CS program is getting more and more competitive.
I'm not sure about liberal-arts though.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI wonder if it's people not taking a gap year, after all there isn't much point if you can't travel.
- sokoloff 5y agoI think a lot of people took a gap year last year (who otherwise wouldn’t have). Why pay for college if you won’t get to actually go? Many of those people are showing up now as applicants.
- tester34 5y agoTo graduate faster
- ghaff 5y agoThat's perhaps the logical answer if the certificate is the outcome you care about. But I know a lot of students who decided that it made more sense just to take the year off and go back to school when things were hopefully more normal again.
- sokoloff 5y agoI could have been clearer. I agree with you [in that I wouldn't have personally delayed], but I think a substantial fraction of the college-bound crowd made that tradeoff calculation.
- hikingsimulator 5y agoBringing an anecdotal evidence to your question. That's actually what I did. Currently taking a gap year (more like two) to go study a MSc in AI. I have a previous background and experience in finance.
- qq4 5y agoAt this point I assume every young, college aged male I speak with is majoring in software. I'm right more often than wrong. That doesn't account for changing majors, etc, and I'm certainly biased.