<p>^Thanks so much for all the advice! Don’t worry, I won’t hold you to anything haha What you say makes a lot of sense in comparison with what I’ve heard from the counselors too. I’ll probably talk to the counselors once the schedules are released to see what they recommend as well. </p>
<p>Considering what you’ve said and that I’m not a hardware guy, I think for me it will come down to two of the following: 162, 161, or 170. I haven’t had an internship before and would like to take 169, but if Fox and Patterson teach it again, I think I rather not risk my minor on getting into that class.</p>
<p>Is 162 not that useful to know for the real world? I definitely want to take 170 as I heard 61B and 170 are the most relevant courses for interviews. Also learning to write better algorithms is definitely helpful. 161 really interests me so I may choose that over 162 if 162 won’t be that helpful to me. Is Doug Tygar a less frequent teacher and not expected to be that popular initially?</p>
<p>How come you rated 162 as easier to get into than 170? Is it just because of the 61C requirement (because of the wave of 61A students this year will only get up to 61B)?</p>
<p>Any of these classes you think I can phase II and actually get in? 164 perhaps? haha Ten times the workload of 61B sounds pretty intense though…Each of the 61B projects took me roughly 25-35 ish hours. </p>
<p>Are there a lot of undeclared majors and other majors (that are also non cs minors) that actually add the upper division CS courses? I imagine if someone has the prereqs to take an upper div CS course (61B and especially 61C) that they would be a major or at least a minor in the field. So I feel like I’m not really beating anyone out. Or is it that many CS majors may have completed the 61 series but not necessarily Math54, EECS42, and CS70 yet so they are still undeclared? This question is more for my own paranoia. I just feel like I basically have the lowest priority in getting into these classes because I don’t imagine any undeclared or non majors even adding these classes.</p>
<p>Thanks again for all the advice</p>