Thanks DP. You should lead more campus tours to increase yield of SD. I am at Warren (1st) as I applied to CS as 1st choice (GE happy for engers). Now I am at M-C which is not Eng, so we are looking at 12 GEs plus writing (how’s Warren’s W btw?) and all that to account for 1/3 of all 4 year courses to be just on GE. Is that kind of norm at SD no matter which college you go? I think CP won’t need that much. This plus bunch of math I now need to take leaves only few electives for some more advanced CS courses. At CP I can take more CS stuff as there’s less GE and math to take (I am OK with some but this is a lot). I am trying to figure out some good GE strategy at Warren but I guess you just have to allocate about 1/3 of course taking to GE at UCSD (in pretty much all colleges)?
The other thing is can M-C students take upper div CS courses in general? Many UD courses are also on M-C elective list but for those not on the list can they still take it (ie, usu. has space for non direct CS majors)? Also rumor has it that DS might come in 2017. Do you think that may change the CS landscape/capacity a bit?