The first three CS courses in UCB (61A, 61B, 70) are not graded on a curve. There are not a lot of grades below C, according to Berkeleytime . EECS students just need to maintain a 2.0 GPA and C grades, but L&S students who want to declare the L&S CS major need a 3.3 GPA in these three CS courses. So aspiring L&S CS majors, but not EECS majors, may consider these courses to be “weed out”.