Private vs UC for CS

[ucbalumnus]

@aquapt

The quality of education at UCSC is comparable, but the chronology is vastly better at Northeastern. NEU students hit the ground running in the core CS sequence, front-loading skills that will prepare them for their first co-op. UCSC students typically bide their time in gen-ed classes while they wait for their registration priority to improve enough to get into CS classes. It can be a very slow start on courses in the major,

The UCSC class schedule https://pisa.ucsc.edu/class_search/ for fall 2019 indicates that the introductory courses were often over 90% full, but rarely completely full. So is it likely that a student who wants to fast-track CS courses will be unable to do so? The Northeastern class schedule https://registrar.northeastern.edu/article/schedule-of-classes/ for fall 2019 also shows high enrollment in introductory CS courses.