<p>If you’re quite serious about CS and already have a bit of programming under your belt. I definitely recommend doing CS-LSA and taking EECS 280 and 203 your first semester then 281 and 370 your second semester. Engineering has much more required courses your freshman year. For example, Engr 101 is difficult to skip even if you’ve had prior experience. You could probably take first semester only 12 credits if you wanted too if you wanted to smooth out the transition a little bit to college.
Doing the core CS classes your freshman year opens up the rest of your schedule to upper level CS. There is a huge group of engineers that does not take 370 and 281 until their junior year because of the many core requirements.</p>