UC San Diego Data Science vs UC Irvine Software Engineering?

[obsidian surge]

Which one is better for career, money, growth, and opportunity? Data science at UCSD or software engineering at UCI? I'm super grateful and kinda surprised I got accepted! 🙂 I want to know which one would be more ideal? I got into UCSD's muir college which would mean i would have almost no GE's left to complete due to AP/Dual enrollment and its pretty highly ranked. But I'm afraid that data science is too dissimilar to computer science since data science doesn't have required cs courses and is a bit different. Also, I'm trying get off the waitlist at ucla for cs

[full yew]

ds is quite similar, but at ucsd you will take specialized DS courses

this means instead of doing Java you do Python

[orchid vale]

you cannot go wrong with either choice

at uci you can switch majors extremely easily if you wish

[full yew]

one big con of that is you can't transfer in credit for it from another school for the most part (due to no equivalency)

[orchid vale]

you just need to meet the course reqs and min gpa and thats all

choose the school thats a better fit for you and financially a better option

[full yew]

at ucsd you're locked out of cs essentially if you entered last year and forward

[orchid vale]

also dont get your hopes up for ucla cs waitlist as it's really hard to get off the waitlist

[orchid vale]

^^^

you will be a data science major at ucsd

[full yew]

or math+cs. surprisingly it's not capped

[orchid vale]

and you should not worry about career prospects in regards to the data science major, as long as you get good experience and projects, which is something the major cant give u

[round rock]

Are you a UCSD student? What do you think about mathcs? I’m deciding between that and regents CS at Davis

[fiery saffron]

not a ucsd student but i've heard its mostly math

[craggy sluice]

i know @harsh bramble is UCSD

might wanna ask him

[snow oar]

omg really?

people were scaring me saying that its hard to change majors and stuff beause i got in for my second choice major and i changed my mind about that path 😭

[full yew]

for uci that's not true

[snow oar]

omg so i have a change of changing my major?

[full yew]

mathcs is a decent major. it is fairly short, but also, it is known to be quite challenging

[snow oar]

we can move into my thread btw if u want

to see more info

[full yew]

i don't see it

[full yew]

but yes, I think uci/ucd/ucla allow switches to cs

[snow oar]

i dont wanna go into cs 😦

[full yew]

ucsb/ucsc/uc berkeley/ucsd for sure don't allow

[full yew]

which major?

[snow oar]

i wanna go into bio or something similar like that

or like bioengineering

[full yew]

oh bio should be fairly easy to switch into

it's extremely high demand majors that have issues

[snow oar]

wait isnt bio extremely high demand tho

or am i trippin

(i want to change from earth science system into bio)

[full yew]

well it's not listed as severely impacted at many schools such that it's closed off

I know that it's still open to TAG, so it can't be to the point of cs

[orchid vale]

my brother currently goes to uci he got in for comp engineering and he just asked a counselor and he just took the cs courses and declared cs

ucsd locks you out of cs if you dont get in it

no matter what

i think its started like this past yr

[snow oar]

so i should be fine with the change of majors and stuff?

omgiomgodjksald does this mean i get to commit to uci 😭

[orchid vale]

sry lemme go to ur thread i dont wanna flood him LMFAO

[full yew]

you shouldn't need to worry if your major isn't ultra impacted lol

[snow oar]

oKOK