<p>Is it possible to now try and change the 2014 freshman application from L&S CS to Engineering CS by talking to UCB admissions ? If possible, would that somewhat jeopardize the application altogether ?</p>
<p>Clementinem: Unfortunately, no UC campus considers art portfolios, letters of recommendation, etc. See [How</a> Berkeley Selects Students | UC Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.berkeley.edu/selectsstudents]How”>Selection Process - Office of Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>collegepanics: You can view the statistics [URL="<a href="http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/berkeley/freshman-profile/index.html"]here[/URL">http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/berkeley/freshman-profile/index.html"]here[/URL</a>]. Out-of-state admits have higher average GPA and test scores, but not by much.</p>
<p>So when applying, are the majors we choose final? For example, I chose biology as my first choice. But I don’t really want to major in Bio and therefore want to change it after I get in. Should I wait or do that now?</p>
<p>Anyone can help me to understand how difficult it is to get into Chemical Engineering in College of Chemistry ? How many students are accepted each yer and what is their typical profile ? Any pointer will be appreciated.</p>
<p>@elitepwnage Yes and no. You will declare a major that is within your college at sophomore. If you want to declare a major that is outside your college, you need to transfer to that college first, and then declare that major (in most cases, this is hard).</p>
<p>@hichristen You cant expect everyone at Cal to be friendly… But most, if not all, of the people that I talk to at Cal are very friendly and enthusiastic with what they do. Plus, we tend to get very sensitive during mid terms and final exams (I’m sure everyone does). The environment at Berkeley is not the best imo. There are quite a lot of homeless people around the South side of the campus, but most of them are extremely friendly (to my surprise). If you don’t like being around them, just go live in the North of the campus</p>
<p>I declared undeclared- Pre-Haas as my major. Is this an impacted major?</p>
<p>The business major requires competitive admission to enter.</p>
<p><a href=“Admissions - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Admissions - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas;
<a href=“Class Profile - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Class Profile - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas;
<p>Is a Math/CS double major in L&S relatively difficult to handle in comparison to majoring in just CS? Is there overlap in the classes required for each major, and would it be possible to do well majoring in both?</p>
<p>Hello there, just wondering how cell service is in Berkeley amongst the major carriers? Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all claim they have excellent coverage there but I know in reality there are always spots where you can’t get a decent signal. Any insight would be appreciated!!</p>
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<p>Math requires 13 total courses.</p>
<p>L&S CS requires 15 total courses.</p>
<p>4 courses overlap (Math 1A, 1B, 54; CS 70 (allowed in place of Math 55 by math major)). So the total number of courses is 24 (fewer if you have AP or other credit for Math 1A, or 1A and 1B). If applied math is chosen, 2 more courses may overlap, reducing the number to 22 (or 20 if one already has Math 1A and 1B credit).</p>
<p>Typical students need 2 more for reading and composition (AP credit may be used) and the 7 course breadth (of which 1 is fulfilled by CS 61C; some upper division math electives may fulfill 2 others). Some students who have not fulfilled the foreign language requirement with high school work or AP credit need to take 2 more courses.</p>
<p>So doing such a double major may require as few as 24 courses to as many as 34 courses to fulfill subject requirements for the major and breadth requirements. Since a typical number of courses is 32 over 8 semesters, doing that would range from comfortably doable with free elective space to needing a slight overload to complete.</p>
<p>Admitted into Econ.</p>
<p>How easy is it to transfer into the CS program at Cal Berkeley (College of L&S) from Econ ? Not EECS.</p>
<p>^ You don’t even have to do anything, actually (I’m pretty sure). Since you applied to L&S, you’re not actually an Econ major right now; that’s just your intended major. Since CS is also in L&S and since you’re in that college, you can just take the CS prerequisites and declare your major as CS later (as you are technically undecided currently).</p>
<p>Got it. So once you basically take the CS pre-requisites, and then declare you major - that’s it ?</p>
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<li>is there a minimum GPA to get into CS or Econ for that matter ?</li>
<li>When do you need to declare your major ?</li>
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<p>Thanks for your help - </p>
<p>Both CS and economics are among the few L&S majors that require a higher prerequisite GPA than merely passing to declare the major. Both happen to currently have 3.0 threshold GPAs to declare the major.</p>
<p>L&S students who entered as frosh are expected to declare a major by their fifth semester, although you can declare earlier if you complete the major’s prerequisite requirements.</p>
<p>Hello, could someone tell me more about the Public Health and Psychology major? Is it hard to get into the majors because they are capped?</p>
<p>In addition, would someone enlighten me about the competition at Berkeley? I am fairly a studious student but quite honestly, I am really terrified of the ‘competition’ at Berkeley. I’ve seen a bunch of threads about it and I’m freaking out over it. I know I should take things online with a grain of salt but countless threads can’t all be wrong… I’m deciding between UCSD and Berkeley (spring admit though).</p>
<p>Hi! I recently got wait listed in Berkeley and i’m writing a letter of appeal. Could someone take a little of time to read this and give me some opinions? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>April fool’s day in Chile can never be referred as “ordinary”, especially in this year, 2014. My day began with a friend telling me that she got a tremendous “peace” tattoo at her back. I completely believed her but soon realized it was a lame joke. As revenge, I decided to invent a bigger lie, but a more credible one. Minutes later, I posted on Facebook that I had been accepted to UC Berkeley. Within the next two hours, I had quite an entertaining moment observing people fall into my trap, while simultaneously accumulating over a hundred “like” clicks and many sweet comments on my post. </p>
<p>As an admission officer/psychologist, you might think: “This student is not taking the admission decisions seriously.” But after being a little bit terrified about the amount of people who fell into my joke, I realized that this entire show was not a joke, at all. In fact, this post has spoken for my internal voice, or the dream I have had all this time. I earnestly want Berkeley, which explains why, after receiving my position on the waitlist (and knowing the fact that there is only a small chance of being admitted as a wait-listed student), I still fantasize to join the UC Berkeley community.</p>
<p>Now you might say: “ Ok. Maybe she is just not able to handle her rejection to Berkeley. But It’ll pass.” However, this is not true. As an international student who moved over 3 countries, I’ve been dealing with all kinds of failures for a long time. Trust me, I’m extremely conscious that the reason I wrote this letter is not because of pride, or the fact that I cannot accept failure. I truly believe that failure is the only path to achieve further success in the future but somehow, somehow, I just cannot say “It’s alright. I’ll live with it and wait for other colleges” to Berkeley ,as I did to other prestigious colleges after receiving their rejections. It is both the physical and mental unease that triggered me to write this letter. </p>
<p>I do not want to go over the clichés sayings of “ I love Berkeley because its economic major has international recognition.” What I love is everything about it, and I can hardly describe it in few words. At this stage of my senior year, most of the things seem unreal and unpredictable, but my passion for Berkeley is touchable, real. I just know that I can not let Berkeley go.</p>
<p>I’m aware that my grades and high school records are negligible compared to the most competitive ones. But I believe that UC Berkeley is holding on to me for a reason, and I have to fight for it. Frankly, I will be fine if I go to study at other colleges, maybe become a future entrepreneur and gain bunch of money, but I just know that I will not be fully satisfied if Berkeley, this essential aim of my life, is slipping away from me.</p>
<p>I realized that this letter might have sounded more like a self-reflection rather than an appeal letter. But this is the point I want to make: UC Berkeley does not only mean a college for me, but a place where I can achieve maximum satisfaction as an individual. Everything I said in the letter might not be flattery, but it is sincere and comes from the bottom of my heart, and if I don’t express it now I am afraid that I will regret in the future.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking your precious time to read my letter.</p>
<p>How competitive is Berkeley… I’m deciding between Berkeley and Davis but I’ve heard that Berkeley is a cut throat environment and I don’t want 4 yrs not liking the people I go to college with</p>
<p>^^
I have no idea why you would choose another college because you’re scared of a little competition. If there’s even any doubt in your mind of which school you want to attend solely based on the fact that Berkeley is extremely competitive, then I think you might as well go to Davis.</p>
<p>Im deciding between Berkeley and Cambridge for Econ right now. So I really appreciate the love Golden Bears have shown in threads like this 
How much do you think you have benefited from its geographical location - sunrise industries, innovations, opportunities, etc.?</p>