UW is #6 nationally for software engineering and #60 overall... rankings are imprecise, but that might have something to do with it. Top students from all over the country compete for a small number of spots at top 10 schools.
I remember when I was there, the CS classes were for
NERDS and now here we are, everyone wants in.
When was that? I went to school in 2002 and CS at the time was already well past the “just for nerds” phase - I would guess that happened some time in the late 90s.
