<p>Lots of questions:</p>
<p>1.) Double Major without Haas, is it possible? Double Major with Haas, is it death?</p>
<p>2.) How much workload is L&S Computer Science, especially projects?</p>
<p>3.) Can you major in Marketing or Finance at Berkeley? (Just curious as it seems the only business major is Business Administration at Haas and L&S only offers Econ)</p>
<p>I'm more towards Economics right now with the hope of eventual admission to Haas, but I definitely am taking some CS courses to build up my programming skills. Should I minor in CS instead? </p>
<p>I have taken AP Calc AB, Calc II in community college, AP Stats, Software Design, AP Comp Sci, and AP Macro Econ in high school. (I'm only using my credits in Calculus though as I would like to take the other classes at Berkeley). I've also learned a little bit of MATLAB in an electrical engineering internship I had for about 9 months. Long story short, I've had some programming experience, but I definitely need review and will be starting with CS10. </p>
<p><strong>If it helps at all, the dream is to get into Haas undergrad, Stanford Business Graduate, and live a happy merry life in NorCal with a job at Google or PIXAR. Highly competitive and highly unlikely, but dreams are what keep ambition alive, are they not?</strong></p>
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<li><p>Double majoring with two L&S majors is generally not difficult, if you choose courses carefully so that every course is used for some requirement for one or both majors and/or an L&S requirement. Double majoring with one of them being business may be more difficult due to business having a higher volume of requirements. You can check by counting units of courses for each major, subtracting overlapping courses to avoid double counting, and adding units for any remaining L&S requirements to see if they all fit in eight semesters (most courses are 4 units each, although many upper division business courses are 3 units each).</p></li>
<li><p>CS courses with programming are generally considered high workload courses. CS theory courses (e.g. 70, 170) are math-like. Some find them easy, but others find them intellectually difficult.</p></li>
<li><p>Marketing and finance would be elective subareas within the business major (although the economics department also offers a few financial economics courses).</p></li>
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<p>If you have had AP CS and internship programming experience, then you should be ready for CS 61A without needing to take CS 10. Taking CS 10 would consume schedule space that you would have little to spare of if you double major.</p>
<p>Note that if you want to aim for PhD study in economics, it is desirable to take Math 53, 54, 104, and 110 and Statistics 134, along with Economics 101A, 101B, and 141 (instead of 100A, 100B, and 140).</p>
<p>Haas and non-quantitative econ are generally very low courseloads compared to more technical majors. Since CS has relatively few requirements, double majoring should not be an issue, unless you are aiming for Econ grad school, in which case you should probably be majoring in Math and Stat. </p>