<p>Someone taking only two technical courses and 12-14 units per semester will typically take more than eight semesters to graduate unless s/he entered with a large amount of useful community college credit (e.g. math and physics).</p>
<p>Three technical courses is not inherently a problem. But three courses with labs, heavy computer programming, or large term projects can be a lot more work than the credit units indicate.</p>
<p>So don’t take all of the high workload courses together in one semester. For example, a schedule of CS 152, CS 164, and CS 184 would not be a good idea. Taking more units when the courses are all light workload courses lets you take fewer units when you have high workload courses.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip ucbalumnus! </p>
<p>btw “(I made the mistake of taking 3 technicals and getting little to no sleep this semester). Basically don’t take 3 technical courses and think you’ll have a lot of spare time.” </p>
<p>haha taking Math 53, CS61A, Physics 7A first semester ):</p>
<p>Math is not generally a high workload course, unless you are bad at math (in which case you probably shouldn’t be in EECS). The same applies to other math-like courses (e.g. CS 70/170/172/174, EE 120, etc.).</p>
<p>Be careful, some humanities and social studies courses can be more work than expected due to large term projects or huge amounts of reading (even if the course material is not very difficult).</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus, You have the patience of a saint. I see you repeating this phrase, “courses with labs, heavy computer programming, or large term projects” in nearly all of your posts, and I am realizing that this is probably a very important thing to be aware of. Thank you very much for all of your help. And I visited the Cal campus today, and I’ve made my decision.
Cal 2013!!!</p>
<p>And thanks again for all of your advice. It is very helpful, and I am taking it to heart.</p>
<p>I’m transfering this year too for EECS. So nervous…</p>
<p>Thanks for your imput guys!</p>
<p>Hey guys, I have another question, and I thought I’d ask it here instead of starting a new thread:</p>
<p>Is it likely that I could have such a hard time getting into that classes which I need, that it could end up pushing my graduation back?</p>
<p>No. Pretty much everyone who’s an EECS/CS major will get into their EECS classes. I’ve never seen them turn people down. They try their hardest to let everyone in.</p>