<p>From my understanding (I am a transfer student) one is admitted to the school of letters and science with an undeclared major. So.... once accepted the student may declare any major within the letters and science department? How does it work, because I know for the application you had stated a major, but I guess that was irrelevant.</p>
<p>it depends on your intended major. for most majors, you can declare after you have taken certain prerequisite courses...and as a transfer, you may have already completed those, or are very near to completing those. so most transfers declare by the end of their first semester or beginning of their second semester. and yes, the major you put on your application does not really matter once you're admitted...you can still change or whatever, but you just have to make sure you've taken the appropriate prereqs already.</p>
<p>however some majors are very popular or are limited in how many students they can let in so they are "capped" and there's a whole other application process to declare those majors. these majors are econ, public health, mass communications, social welfare, psych, and computer science. if you wanna declare one of those, there's probably a lot more info on capped majors on this forum, so you should read up on those.</p>
<p>you are accepted to the college of L&S, not a specific major. for transfer students, it is common to declare major in the second semester at cal.</p>
<p>I believe computer science is no longer capped. It was announced in a CS61A lecture last semester.</p>
<p>"you are accepted to the college of L&S, not a specific major."</p>
<p>does this apply to only transfers, or to incoming freshmen as well?</p>
<p>yes, this applies to all newly admitted students in L&S.</p>
<p>yeah, L&S is the starting point for most undeclared/pre-whatever people. Even if you stated your intent to major in Business you are still catalogued as an undeclared/pre-business student. The same goes with many other majors.</p>
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<p>Can anyone confirm this? The cap for computer science at L&S is of the biggest reasons why I don't really want to apply to Berkeley.</p>
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Can anyone confirm this? The cap for computer science at L&S is of the biggest reasons why I don't really want to apply to Berkeley.
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<p>I can confirm that Harvey announced in a CS61A lecture last semester that CS in L&S will no longer be capped. I saw the webcast. However, you have to keep a few things in mind. First, as far as I and some other people know, this hasn't been made official, and no one knows when it will come into effect. Second, I believe Harvey mentioned that this might be temporary, meaning if the number of applicants into the major surges in the next few years, they might cap it again.</p>
<p>I see the announcement has been published on the CS website, so I now take it to be official.</p>
<p>"EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FOR ALL FALL 2007 STUDENTS INTERESTED IN DECLARING COMPUTER SCIENCE AS A MAJOR
THE COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJOR IS NOW UNCAPPED! "</p>
<p><a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Peer/%5B/url%5D">http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Peer/</a></p>
<p>Of course this is only for the upcoming fall. If too many people get in during the fall, they might recap it. And you can only get in during the fall if you have already completed all the technical prereqs.</p>
<p>Looks like they got it through the Berkeley beaucracy already. That was fast.</p>
<p>Hooray, one uncapped, six more to go!</p>
<p>6 more? Ha! I think you may have forgot about every single major in the CoE. Not to mention Haas bus-ad.</p>
<p>Ehh...I meant in the College of Letters and Sciences (thread title). As much as I would like to see Engineering unimpacted I don't see it happening anytime soon.</p>
<p>IIRC, CS was uncapped because of declining enrollment and interest.</p>