alt Hacker NewsSpring 2026 saw a marked shift in student performance. We saw it in intro physics courses on the East coast too. I bet anyone who cared to look saw it.
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alephnerd • today at 3:49 AM
I'm not denying that. I'm just wondering if anyone measured if there is a correlation effect being induced by CS major declaration requirements.
Barely over a decade ago, CS tended to be a large but not too large major by enrollment in most universities yet nowadays it is the most in-demand major in most universities. You can see this at Stanford [0], but most other programs as well.
[0] - https://stanforddaily.com/2020/04/25/stanford-in-the-2010s-t...
Yep, I'm starting to hear this more and more. Matches my local data. It's a very massive and visible shift in DFW rates.