Berkeley EECS vs CMU SCS vs UT ECB Honors

ucbalumnus
Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:39:47 +0000

linux:

I noticed you talked about how the recent policy changes are drastically decreasing class sizes and therefore addressing some former issues, are these relatively new changes?

L&S CS was moved to the new CCDSS and made direct admit. Previously, L&S CS required a 3.3 college GPA in three prerequisite CS courses to declare the major, but the volume became unmanageably large, since they did not want to make this secondary admission excessively competitive. Changing the CS major to direct admission allows them to better regulate the size of the major and hence the needed capacity for CS courses (EECS is already direct admission).

linux:

Additionally, may I ask where you got those class enrollment numbers from, I’d love to take a look.

https://classes.berkeley.edu and search for COMPSCI courses in the desired semester.