<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Does anyone know where to find information on the average GPA of graduating students by major for UC Berkeley? I've been looking for such data but have no idea what to search for to find it.</p>
<p>For example, I would like to know the cumulative average GPA of Math and Peace & Conflict Studies majors at time of graduation. </p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>if you go on a website like courserank or the campusbuddy you can see the avg gpa by deparment. The berkeley math deparment has an average gpa of around 2.8. Math and statistics courses have very low gpas.</p>
<p>edit: i found this on the cal forums awhile ago</p>
<p>GPA: 2.70-2.80
Biology (1A/1B), Mathematics</p>
<p>GPA: 2.80-2.90
Statistics, Tibetan</p>
<p>GPA: 2.90-3.00
Molecular and Cellular Biology</p>
<p>GPA: 3.00-3.10
Physics, Legal Studies, Computer Science, American Studies, Economics, Chemistry, College Writing</p>
<p>GPA: 3.10-3.20
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Studies, Engineering, Cognitive Science</p>
<p>GPA: 3.20-3.30
Environmental Economics & Policy, Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Philosophy, International and Area Studies, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, Mass Communications, Astronomy, Materials Science & Engineering, Political Science, History, Plant & Microbial Biology, African-American Studies</p>
<p>GPA: 3.30-3.40
Sociology, Linguistics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geography, History of Art, Anthropology, Psychology, Integrative Biology, Latin American Studies, Development Studies, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Business, Film Studies, English, New Media, LGBT Studies, Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, Peace & Conflict Studies, Environmental Science, Asian Studies</p>
<p>GPA: 3.40-3.50
Sanskrit, Rhetoric, Southeast Asian Studies, Spanish, Classics, Celtic Studies, EPSM, Environmental Design, Energy and Resources, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, Letters and Science, Nuclear Engineering, Chicano Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, Latin, Scandinavian</p>
<p>GPA: 3.50-3.60
Greek, Earth & Planetary Science, Bioengineering, Ethnic Studies, Social Welfare, Dutch, City & Regional Planning, Religious Studies, Native American Studies, Theater & Dance, French, Middle Eastern Studies, Landscape Architecture, Asian American Studies</p>
<p>GPA: 3.60-3.70
Chinese, Journalism, Italian, Public Policy, Japanese, Portuguese, Slavic Languages & Literature, Public Health, Music, South Asian Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Vision Science, Military Affairs</p>
<p>GPA: 3.70-3.80
Visual Studies, Punjabi, Military Science, Arabic, Practice of Art, Eurasian Studies, German, UGIS, Education</p>
<p>GPA: 3.80-3.90
Hindi-Urdu, Hebrew, Korean, Malay-Indonesian, Physical Education</p>
<p>GPA: 3.90-4.00
Tagalog, Thai, Persian, Vietnamese</p>
<p>I’m gonna major in physical education.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.30-3.40 for Anthropology.</p>
<p>I need those essays to put me over the top, i have the pre-reqs done, great ECs and past work experience.</p>
<p>Whao thanks!!!</p>
<p>Wow… A lower GPA than Physics? How could that be???</p>
<p>I wonder why the Math GPA is so low(?) Do people like enter the major without knowing exactly what it entails? Hmm… Maybe my PACS double will help out my GPA a bit. haha yikes</p>
<p>Weeders are included in these averages. If you look at UD GPAs they’re a few tenths higher.</p>
<p>omg thank goodness…</p>
<p>anything above a 3.0 would be way more encouraging</p>
<p>i’m a math/econ major at berkeley and i can assure you that the math classes are very intense here. If you have any questions about the math major feel free to ask.</p>
<p>how tough are the econ classes?</p>
<p>Wow that’s really interesting! they should equalize this somehow - they are obviously being way too hard on the mathies
@jane I’m happy about that anthro gpa too, seems I will be able to compete there :D</p>
<p>Is there one of these for UCLA?</p>
<p>Holy crap! I’m a math major hoping to transfer into Cal and those number just FREAKED me out! At the moment I have a 4.0 but, wow…and I thought math people are supposed to be like smart. I wonder if this is because people just don’t study or because they aren’t prepared for them…</p>
<p>@JetForce I heard the math program is heavy on proofs. Is that true? I’ve only taken single and multivariable calc at the local CC, and I thought they weren’t super hard. I don’t know if the level here just sucks or if the level there is SUPER hard. What classes do you think are the killers for math majors? Why do you think the average gpa so low? Thanks…</p>
<p>and people tell me I’m crazy when I say that they’ll likely have a low GPA at Berkeley… your competition is all either within the top 5% intellectually, or else in the top 1% in terms of work ethic. It’s a fact.</p>
<p>^^ Only people that can’t spell “Berkeley” don’t excel there :).</p>
<p>oooo snap…</p>
<p>by that logic, the majority of their population can’t even spell their own schools name. Have some faith in them, these are top students.</p>
<p>THE STUDENTS REPRESENTED IN THESE AVERAGES ARE NOT POORLY PREPARED. CCC is not necessarily easy, but it’s certainly easier to get better grades at a CCC. Transfer UD GPA’s are typically lower than freshman UD GPA’s. A 4.0 at a CCC does not translate into a 4.0 at a UC. That’s so ****ing naive.</p>
<p>For all you prospective math majors, i’m just letting you know that you might think you’re good at math but there are some INSANE people in the department. For example, one of the graduates of the math department was andrew fire. He graduated with a B.A. in math at the age of 19. In 2006, he won the nobel prize in medicine. The reason the math deparment gpa is so low is because all the courses are curved to a B-/B. To get an A/A- you usually need to be in the top 25-30% of the course.</p>
<p>Also the courses are EXTREMELY proof heavy. For example in linear algebra at a CCC you usually do matrix computations. However in linear algebra at UC Berkeley the problem sets will look like this: <a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/~mhaiman/math110-fall09/hw09.pdf[/url]”>http://math.berkeley.edu/~mhaiman/math110-fall09/hw09.pdf</a></p>
<p>MANY people transfer here expecting the math courses to be similar to the ones at CCC and they end up changing their major because it is not what they signed up for. Math courses past multivariable calculus and differential equations are all proof based and many students aren’t used to this type of math. If you want to get a taste of this before you transfer i highly suggest you take a course in discrete math at your community college. This will introduce you to concepts like proof by induction and proof by contradiction which many courses will assume you know from day 1.</p>
<p>@empathy gees…relax! No need to swear now. I think it’s pretty obvious nobody’s saying the grading is the same. The gpa’s are just surprising, especially when you expect to be prepared for it. It worries people that’s all…</p>
<p>@JetForce Does that mean that you do start doing proof’s in Calc then? The class at my college doesn’t emphasize this at all 
Do you know if there’s a class that like specifically teaches you how to prove stuff? Do you think it’s worth auditing calc classes just to make sure you’re prepared for this??</p>