<p>Would a competitve major at schools like Berk, LA, SD be micro/molecular biology? What about neurobiology at Davis? Would any of these affect my admission?</p>
<p>At Berkeley the biology majors fall into two separate Colleges either the College of Letters and Science (L&S), or the College of Natural Resources (CNR).</p>
<p>Here, each applicant is compared to the applicants that apply to the sub-college of Berkeley. So all the L&S applicants from majors such as english, econ, celtic studies, molecular cell biology (most popular major on campus), the pre-business students and the undeclared are put into one applicant pool and admitted regardless of major choice.</p>
<p>The same thing goes with CNR where some of the less popular biology majors are, where all CNR applicants are admitted regardless of intended major.</p>
<p>For Berkeley, I believe only College of Engineering actually takes major choice into account.</p>
<p>does anyone know about the other UCs?</p>
<p>which majors are usually most competitive at UCs?</p>
<p>p.s. - is any kind of engineering hard to get into? Or is it a specific area of engineering? What about civil engineering?</p>
<p>in terms of percentage (meaning not necessarily in terms of difficulty, but this is what the numbers are saying) EECS has to lowest acceptance rate. i think it's followed by civil E, mech E, bio E but not entirely sure on that one.</p>
<p>Those two majors are in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, along with all the other biological sciences, so they won't affect your admission chances.</p>