EECS + Music or EECS + Applied Mathematics??? Dilemma.....

ucbalumnus
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:08:15 +0000

EECS + music will require a lot of classes; L&S CS + music may be slightly more doable (since music is also in L&S). You may want to consider EECS or L&S CS while taking music courses of interest (for your breadth requirements) and/or doing music extracurriculars for practice.

A second major in applied math may not help employment prospects much for an EECS or L&S CS major, except perhaps at a few specific jobs. Even then, taking additional math courses as electives may be more useful, if you pick those applicable to the jobs you are targeting. Again, if you do a double major, it may be easier to do L&S CS + applied math since both are in L&S.

Note, however, that L&S CS does not have direct frosh admission like EECS. You would have to enter as L&S undeclared, or in some other major in a non-L&S division (even EECS), then declare or change to it after completing the prerequisites with at least a (currently) 3.0 college GPA. L&S undeclared is probably slightly easier to get admitted to than EECS for frosh admission, though.