<p>You know, nearly all high schoolers who want to attend Berkeley are unaware of the different breath requirements between CS and EECS. I highly doubt anyone will choose CS over EECS (or vice versa) simply because of easier breadth requirement when they’re applying back in November. Unless, of course, you know someone who’s already in Berkeley or an alumni who told everything about L&S CS and EECS program. </p>
<p>But let’s get this straight: high-schoolers are ambitious. They may have taken some programming/CS courses, but they haven’t taken anything too difficult yet, so they are not afraid to try something new. It is only intuitive to think that EECS has more workload than CS, and most of them will have the confidence to tackle both.</p>
<p>Yes, yes, I know the L&S CS in the career survey is just as succesful as EECS (and I ask you again; do you think high schoolers will even know about that survey?), but you have to think from a high schooler’s perspective. Simply put, having that extra EE just sounds/feels better in addition to CS.</p>