L&S v. Engineering Advice?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hey all, I'm going into Computer Science, and would like to get some peoples opinions on whether I should apply L&S, or go with Engineering. Engineering would be preferred, but frankly, I do not know if I am qualified enough to get in. And if there's some large doubt about whether I'd get into Engineering, I'd rather go to L&S to get my BA in CS. But again, I'd prefer to get that B.S. from the Engineering college.</p>

<p>Anyway, here's a quick run-through of my stats:</p>

<p>Asian Male, In-State
SATI: 680CR, 800M, 770WR: [2250]
SATII: 790MATHII, 740USH, 660CHEM
ACT: 34</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.35
Unweighted GPA: 3.98 (1 B in high school)</p>

<p>APs: Calculus BC:5 / English Lang:5 / Psychology:5 / Statistics:5 / USH:5 / Chemistry:4 / Music Theory:3</p>

<p>Senior year course load: AP Lit, Honors Chinese, Multivariable Calculus, AP Government, Adv. Journalism (editor position for paper), Physics 1/2</p>

<p>Captain of varsity basketball team
Internship in IS department of a state agency
Was a coach for a Bay Area basketball camp. Later promoted to site director.
Worked at private tutoring company for 2.5 years
Reporter for school newspaper for 2 years (grades 10,11)
Editor for school newspaper in grade 12
School Service Commission President</p>

<p>& other pretty minor things.</p>

<p>Any advice?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>you could do the old bait and switch. apply to l/s and transfer to coe.</p>

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<p>L&S = more humanities, COE = physics courses. Which do you pick?</p>

<p>In either case, your stats are very similar to what mines were when I applied to EECS three years ago.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t necessarily say L&S is more humanities. There’s only 1 actual humanities course you have to take (outside of the R&C requirement, which CoE students have to do too)</p>

<p>You can fufill the other requirements with social sciences</p>

<p>I hate the humanities but social science subjects like economics and political science are fun :)</p>

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<p>I would go for EECS if that is closer to what you want to do (If you’re remotely interested in EE, you might as well go for it).</p>

<p>I got in to (Engineering-Undeclared, which the counselors said is about the same difficulty of getting in to EECS), and the only main differences is you have a better writing score than me on the SAT, better unweighted gpa, I got 800s on SAT2 Math/Chem, I got I had AP Physics C, Diff Eq, Lin. Alg., and you have much much much better ECs than me. </p>

<p>I would go for EECS, I think that you could probably get in and then you don’t have to worry about transferring, and could take just 3 classes your first semester (Particularly if you have a difficult R&C course or other humanities).</p>

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<p>Thanks for the comments guys. Any other suggestions?</p>

<p>Also, about how hard is it to transfer from L&S -> Engineering? Does it have to be done after a semester or something?</p>