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<p>I was interested in this – it seems perverse – so I looked it up. I think the correct statement is that the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering will not admit Berkeley undergraduates to its PhD program unless they have an intermediate degree from another institution or substantial work experience elsewhere. (It still seems weird to me to have such an absolute policy, but they apparently have it.) The Department of Chemistry doesn’t say anything similar.</p>