<p>SLE takes up 2 class spaces per quarter. Plenty of science students, including CS majors, were in SLE. It’s true that the workload is supposed to be heavy and there’s a lot of reading, but I’ve heard many times that SLE is over-united. If you’re looking to finish your degree early, SLE might actually help with that - getting rid of PWR 1 and PWR 2, plus the humanities and EC requirements. This may or may not be the case in the upcoming year, since Stanford is redoing its undergrad curriculum (supposedly fewer requirements, so SLE might not confer the advantage that it could have before).</p>
<p>Take this with a grain of salt - SLEople (haha) should chime in on its current difficulty.</p>