@badgolfer I think you’re over generalizing. The required curriculum for a CS degree does not have to take up most of your time or soak up most of the classes you take, especially if you are not in an engineering school and even more so if you are pursuing a BA.
I’m a math/CS double major who is minoring in music, but my music credit load am more like someone who is also majoring in music (I’m just not taking the same credits as one with a major would). I have yet to decide if I’m going to declare a BA or a BS, but at my university, a math/CS double major has the same core requirements regardless of whether you do a BA or BS. I am on track to graduate in four years.
If you think it’s just the college I chose, I also went to CWRU (got full tuition there as well as where I’m attending) and I would have been a music (requirement of scholarship) and either math or CS double major with a minor in whichever one I didn’t major in. Again, with the way my courses were planned out, this is was entirely possible and doable in four years while taking normal credit load if I did a BA in math or CS. The only difference in their degrees is that the BS in CS also has to take the engineering core, while the BA does not. These is no difference in terms of the CS curriculum or course requirements itself.