<p>anyone think about transfer to Berkeley since it may save two years' money and the acceptance rate for transferrin to College of Chem is about 50%? and you can also get some harder courses done in a easier school before going to Berkeley.</p>
<p>whats the logic behind preventing in-breeding? unless it's like "oh we want better students from stanfUrd, harvUrd, MIT students.."</p>
<p><a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/admiss...neral.asp?id=28%5B/url%5D">http://students.berkeley.edu/admiss...neral.asp?id=28</a> try this one and go to transfer admission, the one before doesn't really work</p>
<p>ok, that doesn't work either...just go to berkeley's website, click on undergraduate the undergraduate admission afterwards you see "transfer student" as an option on top, then choose online publications, and find tranfer admission, it says ChemE transfer rate=53%</p>
<p>Berkeley believes that "in-breeding" will cause their undergrads to become stagnant in their views and learning experiences, because as graduate students they would be interacting and working with the same professors that they had as undergrads. Experiencing other colleges for grad school will expose them to new ideas/people/learning environments so that they can continue enriching their education. This is why Berkeley grad departments (mostly science ones, that is) have an unwritten rule against accepting their own undergrads to the same department (e.g. Berkeley chem undergrad major --> Berkeley chem grad student? Nope, not gonna happen). Which majorly sucks for those of us who WANT to continue our graduate careers at Cal (which is like the Harvard of grad schools). Unless, of course, you apply to a different department for grad school than the one you majored in as an undergrad (e.g. Berkeley chem engineering major --> Berkeley chem grad student? Hmmm... possible).</p>
<p>idk if that completely true. My dad went to berk for undergrad and grad in biomedical engineering, he also helped with the graduate admissions process and he said they accepted mostly berk undergrads. Grated that was 1985ish, idk things change</p>
<p>Like I said before, each department makes its own rules. There are some departments at Berkeley that have no problem in taking its own undergrads. And there are some that don't want to. Chemistry is one of them that doesn't want to.</p>
<p>And, again, in fairness, Berkeley chemistry is not the only department that believes this, and it's not, as was insinuated, because the Berkeley chem department justs wants to get graduate students from Harvard, Stanford, or MIT. The MIT Chemistry department also believes in the no-inbreeding rule. Is that because the MIT chemistry department wants to get better students than what it can get from its own undergrad program? The Caltech chemistry department, I believe, also adheres in the no-inbreeding rule. Is that because the Caltech chemistry department doesn't think its own undergrads are any good? I don't think so.</p>