Switching to Berkeley L&S CS after transfer admission for another major?

[ucbalumnus]

@ProfessorPlum168

One strategy, pretty risky, that you could do is the following if you didn’t want to overload - take the equivalent Data Structures class while in CC, take CS61A in the summer, take CS 70 in the fall, then declare if you get your 3.3.

A strategy that can work for students who are near Laney College in Oakland is:

• Take usual transfer preparatory course work.
• Take CIS 61 (= UCB CS 61A according to ASSIST).
• Take CIS 25 and 27 (= UCB CS 61B according to ASSIST).
• Take UCB CS 70 during the summer.

If your UCB CS 70 grade is B+ or higher, you now know that if you can get admitted to UCB L&S as a transfer, you have met the requirements to declare the L&S CS major immediately on entry.