[nunez]

This is REALLY bad advice. Yeah, the high-flying finance firms will pay big bucks for Physics or Math majors that can code and think quick on their feet, but you have to be REALLLLY good to get into those firms, and those firms hold CS to the same level anyway.

If you want to become a software engineer, get a CS or CpE degree and do whatever you want as a minor.

Some anecdotes:

* My girlfriend got a Math degree from a good, but not Ivy-league, school with a minor in Physics. Turns out that the market doesn't value a B.S in Math as much as one would think. She landed up becoming a teacher, which she likes doing, but it's a field that's really hard to get out of without resetting your career.

* I went to school that had a cooperative education program. All of the engineering students were eligible to participate. Twice a year, the Co-op program had two days in which hiring managers from local companies (my school is in Hoboken, so local == NYC) would come to the school and interview people. We would put our names and majors on the lists that employers had, and they would select the people they wanted to speak with.

The CS and CpE students would always, without fail, get AT LEAST 7 interviews that day. Every other major would be lucky to get 2 or 3.