<p>Is it harder to get into UCB as an intended bio major than a physcology major?</p>
<p>Well, first of all, there is no "biology" major at Cal; it's called Integrative Biology. There are also other majors in the biological sciences here, eg Molecular and Cell Biology. All these biological sciences majors are NOT impacted. Psychology at Berkeley, on the other hand, is impacted. So it's more difficult to get accepted as a psychology major just because there are just waaay too many people applying for it.</p>
<p>I find it difficult to believe that MCB is not impacted. There are soooo many premeds here, and their major is usually MCB.</p>
<p>^ So did I. But it's not impacted (thank merciful God). The MCB major classes are tough, though. And most of the premed lower division classes are very, very competitive. The major may not be impacted, but the material itself is no picnic, so it's fairly difficult to stay in the major, even if it's not that hard to get in to the major.</p>
<p>Does admissions limit the accepted psych majors, or do they allow the restrictions on people declaring psych to do it? Perhaps both? What proof do you have of admissions not accepting pre-psych majors because of their being pre-psych?</p>
<p>There are three biology departments at Berkeley: one in the college of Natural Resources, and two in the college of Letters and Science. The college of Chemistry also offers a biology major. </p>
<p>As for difficulty of admission, freshman admissions is only dependent on the college you apply to (with some exceptions in the engineering school, with certain majors being especially hard to get into). It's generally harder to get into Chemistry and L&S than Natural Resources. </p>
<p>A clarification: When the above posters talk about impacted majors, they mean the difficulty of declaring a major at the end of two years in L&S (all students in L&S come in undeclared, regardless of their intended major on their application); impacted majors are harder to declare in that some departments don't let just anyone declare, requiring students to have certain grade averages and the like.</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying, Quentin. And Chemical Bio I competely forgot about. :P</p>
<p>but don't truckloads of people apply to the integrative biology and molecular biology majors? Would it affect my chances of getting in if I put them as my intended majors?</p>
<p>Truckloads of people apply as those, sure, but really, who cares? The college of letters and sciences says that they don't take prospective major into account, and I don't know of any reason to think that they are lying. If you don't intend on majoring in those, then don't put it, but if you do, why not put it? If it makes you feel better, you could leave it as undeclared. Or psych.</p>