Berkeley vs Michigan MRADS?

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I’m an international student from India. I’ve been selected to both, UMich and Berkeley ( Letters and Sciences/LSA to both).

I’m planning to major in CS with a possible concentration in Intelligent Robotics.

While rankings show that Berkeley is ahead of Michigan in CS, how would you weigh being in the MRADS program (Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars- a research focused living community, with an undergraduate research program)
at Michigan, as opposed to being a normal CS student at Berkeley?

(I’m international, so COA at both universities is roughly the same)
Today at 9:46 pm
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Something to consider:

UCB L&S CS requires a 3.3 GPA in CS 61A, 61B, 70 to declare the major.

Michigan LSA CS requires a 2.5 GPA in two (calculus or higher) math courses and EECS 203 and 280 to declare the LSA CS major.

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I’m not worried too much about the GPA cap, as I do have prior CS experience, and almost everyone I know easily managed to declare.
In case I’m not able to declare, I’m also thinking of Data Science, which doesn’t require a cap as of now. I also wanted to ask you how is Data Science as a major, compared to CS?