On: Should CS depts. reject creative applicants?

[amichail]

CS makes sense as a major if you want to work as a highly paid software engineer building someone else's products.

That's not the creativity I care about.

[pspeter3 → amichail]

What about all of the entrepreneurs who come up with their own products and code them? Also CS is a major about how to think about problems and solve them. Any creative person needs that skill set eventually. Whether they get that from Computer Science is up to them but CS makes sense as a major for a variety of people.

[amichail → pspeter3]

Much of the programming entrepreneurs do is not difficult -- especially with the availability of all sorts of libraries for more difficult things.

CS would be more useful for those people building difficult libraries that require specialized domain knowledge.