<p>Page 5 of this <a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/12626_5.Info_TransAdm.pdf</a> lists the various categories under the College of Letters and Science two of which are: </p>
<p>Arts and Humanities (ex. philosophy, rhetoric, english)</p>
<p>AND</p>
<p>Social Sciences (ex. poli sci, sociology, psych)</p>
<p>As an admit to the College of L&S can I choose anything from either? Or am I restricted to the category that I pledged on my application i.e. philosophy so I can only declare a major within the arts and humanities?</p>
<p>you can choose any major in L&S.</p>
<p>Where does it say that Berkeley admits by colleges and not majors? In that link you gave, it shows the acceptance rate for each major…</p>
<p>berkeley admits by department not major.</p>
<p>So why did they post the acceptance rates by major?</p>
<p>uhm they didn’t? look closely. EECS is a department within CoE which is why they list its percentage. Likewise, architecture has its own deparment in CED which is why they list its acceptance rate. Also all the independent majors in L&S don’t fit in the main departments have their own which is why they have their admit rate listed.</p>
<p>“Applicants to majors in the College of Letters and Science are not admitted directly into a given major but are reviewed based on the division in which their indicated major is located”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS08/ETS08_TransferQ&A_Final.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/educators/counselors/resources/materials/ETS08/ETS08_TransferQ&A_Final.pdf</a> (p.15)</p>
<p>So are the “independent majors” considered a section? Because I’m looking to apply for Computer Science (which it says has 38%) but that’s in the “independent” section which they say they have limited space in.</p>
<p>From what I know, applicants can actually apply for less impacted majors in College of L&S such as environmental econ or political econ, and then declare a more impacted major, like economics, after they are admitted by L&S.</p>
<p>Has anyone done that before?</p>
<p>plenty of people do it. i’m doubling in applied math/econ so im applying to econ in the fall. You could come in here as a philosophy major and apply to the econ major along with the people who got in here as econ majors. I know of someone that got in as math but couldn’t cut it with the upper div math classes so he switched to comp sci in L&S.</p>
<p>Sure you can change your major, but you would have to still finish school in 4 semesters. Berkeley churn and burns baby!</p>