<p>Hi, I'm a senior in high school and I was just wondering which is more competitive to apply for: A computer science major or a business major?</p>
<p>You can’t apply for Business directly from high school. You need to apply to Haas (the business school) during your sophomore year here at Cal. Regarding CS, it’d fall under L&S I believe (which is basically undeclared).</p>
<p>You cannot apply to the HAAS School of Business as a high school student. You have to get accepted into Berkeley, compete and sabotage some of your classmates in UGBA10 (and other HAAS prereqs) for a year, and then apply fall semester of your sophomore year. </p>
<p>The EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) major is more competitive to get into than the College of Letters and Sciences, which is why it holds more “prestige”. If you have no interest in the EE, you can list “Computer Science” as your intended major, and apply to the College of Letters and Sciences. People in the College of L&S enter as “undeclared” - they don’t declare their major until their second year or so - so you only apply for an intended major to build your essays/extracurriculars around.</p>
<p>Ah I see. Thanks for answering!</p>
<p>What are the differences between CS in EECS and CS in the College of Letters and Sciences?</p>
<p>L&S does more humanities, EECS has more technical courses. EECS also allows to do EE stuff, it’s not purely CS. (There’s only two required lower civ EE courses, but you can take more upper div ones you if want.) Basically it’s just two different sets of requirements. And EECS is more competitive than L&S.</p>
<p>Read this: [Computer</a> Science - Two Ways | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/two_ways.html]Computer”>Undergraduate Admissions & Programs | EECS at UC Berkeley)</p>