<p>Hey guys, sorry if these are lame questions but I'm blank on the app process and don't know anything about college
1)If I want to go into software engineering in the future, for UC Berkeley do I select Computer Science under the College of Letters and Science or the College of Engineering? One says "B.A." and the other says "B.S", and I've had a hard time figuring out the difference.
2)I want to dual major in both business and computers, but out of all the UC's, Berkeley won't let me input an alternate major. On top of that, UC Berkeley doesn't admit freshman into the HAAS School of Business, so I'm guessing I just select "Undeclared/Pre-Business Administration", and transfer into HAAS later? For now I want to just put Computer Science on my application major, but the personal statement I've prepared relates to my business interests, and since UC Berkeley won't let me address my second major, seeing Computer Science and a personal statement about business might make things look sloppy...
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these questions!</p>
<p>You may do CS as either L&S CS or CoE EECS. The differences:</p>
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<li><p>L&S is easier for frosh admission, but all students enter undeclared. CS majors must make a 3.0 college GPA in the prerequisites to declare the major. EECS is more difficult for frosh admission, but you are in the major from the start. Changing into EECS after enrolling not as an EECS major is generally considered very difficult.</p></li>
<li><p>EECS requires additional math (Math 53), science (Physics 7A and 7B and one other science not including the “for poets” courses), and engineering (EECS requires both EE 20 and 40, while L&S CS requires one of them). Breadth requires do differ between CoE and L&S.</p></li>
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<p>Doing two majors with both L&S CS and business administration will make for a very crowded schedule (even more crowded if you try to do EECS and business administration). It may be more realistic to just take selected business or related courses (in economics, sociology, etc.) as electives alongside the L&S CS or EECS major. The business major has a competitive admission process to apply into after completing its prerequisites.</p>
<p>VERY IMPORTANT: You declare a second major after being admitted to UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley DOES NOT offer alternate majors, meaning that you can be admitted for a different major if not accepted for your first choice major. This implies that if you were to apply to EECS and be rejected, you cannot be considered for admission to any other college or any other major at the time of your current application.</p>
<p>You are welcome to discuss the interest of doing a double major in your essay though.</p>