<p>Graduating in 2 or 3 years is definitely possible. I’m a biology major and I’m graduating in 3.5 years, even though I could do it in 3. I’m staying for an “extra” semester to finish my honors thesis, which isn’t required for graduation.</p>
<p>She just has to be very careful about her planning. Also, taking classes at California community colleges for ~$15 a unit and transferring them to Berkeley is a great idea. I got rid of all my breadth requirements like that. It saved me a ton of time and money.</p>
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<p>Depends. Are you doing well now? If you’re not, then it’s very unwise to take this courseload.</p>
<p>I dunno. I’m testing myself. I’ll decide after my sophomore year fall. My first semester was a disaster… underestimated everything didn’t study or anything… this semester is better hopefully. w.e ill decide later thanks</p>
<p>Let’s say someone doesn’t know anything taught in Math1A. Will this person be able to take Math1A and 1B at the same time? what about Math1A and Math53/54?</p>
<p>To elaborate a bit and answer your previous question, Math 1A is the equivalent of AP Calculus AB (limits, differentiation, and integration) and Math 1B is the equivalent of AP Calculus BC (more integration techniques, series, and differential equations). Math 53 is multivariable calculus and Math 54 is linear algebra and differential equations. Both Math 53 and 54 (mainly the second half) require solid knowledge of basic calculus, which is why Math 1A and Math 1B are prerequisites. Math 1A and Math 1B are a continuation of each other. If you take Math 1A and Math 1B at the same time, you would be learning integration techniques in Math 1B way before you even touch upon integration in Math 1A so it would be better to take these courses one at a time.</p>
<p>The 09-10 letter for continuing students is on early May so probably next week.</p>
<p>I’m trying to look for PE programs & classes in the summer. On the RSport website it only talks about the next semester and not summer. I have to stay in Berkeley the whole summer for my research program so I want to do some PE training. Any suggestion?</p>
<p>I’m not looking for any easy way through and I don’t think Berkeley will be easy, but what would be the “easiest” major for someone going premed?</p>
<p>I mean I know MCB seems like a major to go into for premed, but it does have one of the lowest average GPA’s at Berkeley which tells me the classes are hard. I want to actually do something Bio related, but at the same time I’ve been thinking on Engineering. I know GPA matters most for Med school, but I have no idea what I want to do right now and I rally don’t want to take the easy way out and go for some BS major because I want a good GPA, but I hate the classes. And I would like a backup if I don’t get into med school</p>
<p>ALso, what are admittance rates of Berkeley grads applying to med school? And are there stats on what majors most premed do?</p>
<p>You can major in anything you want as long as you meet the main premed requirements.</p>
<p>Before the CampusBuddy came around last year (and Pickaprof a while before that), no one had numerical evidence that MCB was the hardest biology department, as a result the plurality (possible the majority) of premeds at this time are MCB. </p>
<p>There is also a premed MCB bandwagon (some of my friends were sucked into this as frosh, and they are only now pulling themselves out of it), where premeds think for some reason that MCB is the “best” for premed and do it for just that. The sad truth is that there are premeds out there that think major matters (but it doesn’t) and hence pick majors they might not really be interested in thinking it is a plus for medical school (look at the first link I posted below)</p>
<p>Seriously, just major in something you love and do well in it. If your prereq and BCPM GPAs are good, you should be fine for medical school.</p>
<p>^THank you, the problem is I might be most interested in MCB lol, but I’m gonna look into it because I really am not pulling one way or another at this time</p>
<p>If I apply for a theme program and get accepted into it, does it mean I will have to do the theme program? I’m thinking about doing one, but because I know so little about it, I think I might have second thoughts.</p>
<p>What exactly is CalSO and when should I do it as an incoming freshman? Also, how hard will it be to get the classes I want in the fall like Math 1A and Chem 1A?</p>
<p>CalSO is an introductory visit but also includes advising and your registration for your first semester classes. Until you attend CalSO, you don’t have the advisor code that is need to unlock the registration system. </p>
<p>Earlier is better as other students are signing up for classes steadily. If you can’t go to any, you will get a late chance to register which lowers your shot at the most in-demand classes.</p>
<p>Sign up for the earliest CalSO you can. Each session has a set of colleges, thus not every date is open to a single student - only those dates that support their college. They also fill up. Another reason to get your CalSO booked right away.</p>
<p>Signing up for a CalSO does not matter as much as to when most people do it, versus actually going to a session that best accomodates your schedule. That, and actually going to one, since you will have to if you want to register for classes.</p>
<p>I have a question. On my application I reported my AP scores for calc, history, and chemistry. In addition, I reported that I planned to take gov, econ, bio but havent taken them yet thus did not give them an AP score.</p>
<p>The college of L&S doesnt take credit for econ / bio, and I have never told them my “score” on my app. Do I still have to take them?</p>
<p>Hey I heard that freshmen usually don’t get into the units…is that true?</p>
<p>If it is, would it be risky to put any one of the units on the top of my list? Would it be better to just be safe and put ckc at the top to begin with?</p>
<p>I don’t know on what basis to order my housing app on…my preference? the likelihood of me getting my top choice?</p>
<p>Here is the way the system works. They randomly order all the freshmen housing applicants and then process their requests in that sequence.</p>
<p>When your application is being processed, they start with your first choice, which they grant if there is still space in that class of room (e.g. unit 1 triple). If the class of room is full by this time, they go to your second choice, again filling it if the class is open. If none are open, you get to the ‘any’ choice at the bottom and will get a random room type from among the classes of rooms still open. </p>
<p>Therefore not true what you said. Even if every freshmen listed the same type - CKC double - the first ones (as many as there are rooms of this class) in the list would receive their first choice until all the CKC doubles were assigned. The next freshmen would not get the CKC double because the pool was exhausted, thus their first choice is skipped and the system then looks at the second choice.</p>
<p>You have no control over when your application is processed and it has nothing to do with when you applied - strictly random as far as anyone knows with possible exceptions for athletes and similar high priority students. </p>
<p>If you put CKC at the top of your list and it has room, even if all the units are open, you get CKC. When it is your turn, you get your choices in your priority order subject to availability.</p>
<p>Thus, you should put the list in preference but perhaps save the last choice (except for ‘any’) for a category you could settle for and which you think is undesirable enough that it is likely to still have availability unless you are so unlucky that you are at the very tail end of all the processing.</p>