[jrockway]

Don't say you're looking for students from all majors

Why not? If you're smart and are interested in programming, it's quite possible that I am willing to "take a chance" on you. It doesn't really matter if you studied data structures or English literature; CS majors have as much experience writing real software as English majors do.

[bartonfink]

If you're really worried about students from "all majors" being unqualified, then it seems to me that the answer is requesting a small coding project ala FizzBuzz to seperate the wheat and the chaff. Those who can, do - those who can't... do something else.

[kd0amg]

Around here, students generally major in what they want to do for a career. It's not that a person isn't capable of doing things they didn't study -- they just aren't likely to be all that interested.