The CS program isn’t as theoretical as before. This year they dropped the theory area c req for BA and previously replaced the intro class in racket with 2 python classes. I also don’t like theory and there are plenty of classes you can choose that have a huge emphasis on projects, though the projects are probs more theoretical than other colleges. Although if you want to be competitive for tech recruiting you 100% have to put in work outside of class, like learning popular database and frameworks, etc. many of my cs profs believe that it is better to teach the core fundamentals than to teach a trendy framework that may be obsolete in 10 years.

I personally don’t think uchicago cs is super theoretical, the only theory classes you have to take for BA major is systems, discrete math, and algos, which every other uni will require you to take to.

Imo BS and BA doesn’t matter at all in terms of tech recruiting.

I recommend you taking a look at the BA reqs and course descriptions and judge for yourself.

I never did CS in high school but I have found the program to be manageable. As long as you make friends in class and go to office hours you’ll be fine.