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It's not. HS students are direct admitted to the CoE but not their major. Allen School is a separate path and the only reasonable path to the Allen School CS is
by brewdad 4y ago
It's not. HS students are direct admitted to the CoE but not their major. Allen School is a separate path and the only reasonable path to the Allen School CS is a direct admit from HS that is incredibly competitive. We are OOS, so he would have had an easier time getting into MIT than into Allen as a HS applicant. I think they took 4 OOS/Int'l students out of 400 total admits.
After you accept that fact, 96% of rising sophomores in the College of Engineering got their first or second choice of major and only 4 majors had to reject anyone who wanted it as their first choice. If you took your first year seriously, you are almost certainly exactly where you hoped to be when you first applied coming out of HS.
My son just got accepted into the new ECE program. He plans to follow a path that gets him closest to the Allen school degree while adding in some additional hardware knowledge that those students don't necessarily get.
- buildbot 4y agoThat is sad to hear about the Allen school, but it sounds like the CoE has figured out a good way forward. Goodluck to your son though with the new ECE program! It was a great program even before the name change with a lot of very good professors and lecturers. I especially recommend any class by Scott Hauck.
- brewdad 4y agoThanks. I'll let him know. He's had a great experience one year in and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend UW to anyone considering it but understand that you basically get to apply twice for any desirable major. Once to get into the school and again for whatever major you want if it is capacity constrained. Ironically, my cousin's daughter opted for Berkeley over UW this fall. She's on a non-STEM track though.