Anil graduated with a Electronics degree from India but wanted to pursue a MS in CS from the US. When he wrote to the CS department head of NCSU about his interests, he got a reply saying that they cannot consider his application as he did not have the prerequisite courses in CS that they expect every incoming student of the department to have taken during the undergrad. The department head however offered him a solution. Anil thus applied for the MS in EE program. After joining the university he discussed his profile and interests with the Computer Science department head. The HOD asked Anil to take two courses from the computer science department in the very first semester and if he scored an A in both of those, he would let him switch his degree to the MS in CS program. Anil did, and eventually graduated with a degree in Computer Science
You could try this too. There, however, is a risk that after joining the university you may not get the transfer to the desired choice of program the following semester. But after all, it’s all about taking a calculated risk.
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