<p>Hi, I am Applied Math and Econ double major at Berkeley.
As an international student, I left school for two years after finishing my freshman year to serve in the military. I came back 2011 Spring semester and currently doing internship in boutique financial firm. I want to apply for MFE, and I was wondering whether having only humanities and social science classes in my freshman year won't look good.</p>
<p>In my first semester, I took 13 units (8 units of Letter Grade).
Intro Econ, Political Science (P/NP), Middle Eastern Studies, freshman seminar (P/F).
In my second semester, I took 16 units (12 units of Letter Grade).
Political Science(P/NP), 2-unit breadth, 2-unit breadth, Ethnic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies.
In summer seession, I took 8 units (8 units of Letter Grade).
Math 53 and Stat N21.
[2 years of gap year due to militia duty]
This spring I took 16 units (all of which are Letter Grade).
Math 54, Math 55, Econ 101A, second half of R&C.</p>
<p>I will be graduating in Spring 2014 which will give me total of 9 semesters. I carry 4.0 GPA and received As or A+s on courses I took for letter grade. After I got out of military, I studied and took GRE before coming to the U.S. I received 710V 800Q 5.0AW. On the other hand, I took total 9 units of P/NP or P/F and looking forward to take more courses such as self-paced 1-unit comp sci classes in P/F. My roommate expressed concern because he said too many P/NP or P/F courses on my transcript will look bad. Also, he said I should've taken more stat/comp sci/econ classes rather than political science or "studies" courses. Does it look really bad to take humanities/social science classes and Pass/Fail that it will negatively play in my graduate school admission? I would like to hear from you!</p>