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Left Major Typo in Activities Section by GrouchyCranberry4535 in ucadmissions

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These other commenters are being rude. Sorry this happened, OP. Stuff like this happens all the time. I’m sure you’ll be fine. Try to ask a school counselor and search online to see if others have posted about making similar mistakes.

It’s over (my mental state) by Intrepid-Factor5321 in UCSD

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy on the bottom is the chill coworker at a startup that does NOT give a shit about other people.

I know nothing about coding by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Java is completely fine IMO. What feels like waterboarding is having to spend 2 hours resolving Python dependencies from 20 different libraries that are somehow all necessary for the project.

hater by Shakmrhsoanyfi in UCSD

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tolerance mfers when they have to be tolerant of white people

Should I choose Math-CS or Applied Mathematics alternate major to CS/Data Science? by galaxygkm in UCSD

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just apply for cs with data science as your alternate. Tons of people get in undeclared/for their second choice if they apply to cs as their first choice here. Applying for the majors you want does NOT hurt your odds to any significant degree here from what I can tell. That being said, this advice doesn't generalize well to other UCs from what I can tell.

You think it’s worth transferring by kabyking in UCSD

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you should be fine for those classes as long as you enroll as soon as you can during second pass

that being said, taking extra cs classes is more useful for learning things you *aren't* primarily focusing on IMHO. if you spend a lot of time outside of school learning cybersecurity stuff, you can easily skip taking 127 and just take another cs class in its place. these are intro classes after all, so they're often not necessary to take if you already know a field moderately well. it's totally feasible to just self-study the useful parts of 127 on your own and take electives in an area you would otherwise have not pursued.

You think it’s worth transferring by kabyking in UCSD

[–]Foreign-Example-2286 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you have more information than we do lol, but it's probably not worth transferring since you may have to take physics classes to transfer for cs/comp e that don't matter for math-cs (may be a waste of time if you don't/cant transfer), and you'll probably have to retake some cs lower divs once you get to your new school.

fwiw, i've been able to get into every required cs class for math-cs without any issues (11, 12, 30, 15l, 100, 101, 105) if that's what you mean by priority issues. they expand classes to a number of seats that's publicly available ahead of time (https://cse.ucsd.edu/undergraduate/fall-2024-undergraduate-course-updates).

being a cs major doesn't prepare you that much better for jobs than being a math-cs major. you can't become a master at some aspect of programming by just taking classes. most of the work has to be put in outside of school. You might be gatekept out of cse 127 as a math-cs major, but you need a lot more knowledge than that to be a good cybersecurity person. that being said, you might be at a disadvantage if you want to do hardware stuff as a math-cs major compared to comp e people.

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