<p>I just got into Berkeley, which is great! But I definitely applied to the College of Letters and Sciences, but my acceptance letter says I got into the College of Natural Resources.</p>
<p>I checked back for my uc app and then I found out that I chose undeclared/natural resource as my major, which is a total mistake. I had planned to get into L&S with an undeclared major but I dont know how would I end up in College of Natural resource. What can I do now? Can I call AO and ask to change the school? (I know its a little unrealistic
) because I'm definitely interested in going to Berkeley but nothing in the College of Natural Resources appeals to me at all. </p>
<p>Besides, can I transfer to L&S after I go to Berkeley and how hard it is?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. It’s very easy to transfer from any college to L&S. However, you may want to act now because you will have to register for a CNR CalSO, which won’t be any help to you.</p>
<p>I agree with GoBears2013 - preferable to contact them now and ask to switch, which should be easy to take care of. However, even if that can’t be done until you start, it is a trivial task to transfer into the College of L&S, just a form and walking into an office to formally hand it in. </p>
<p>The only complication, as mentioned, is that the advising session that you would attend to help you figure out your first semester classes and to do your first registration will be a session set up for CnR majors, but it just means a bit more self-help work. Post questions here and CC members will help out, both with suggestions and pointing you at the policies and many online sources of information to guide you.</p>
<p>THANKS. How to act? Call AO and tell them that I have made a mistake? Or tell them I have changed my mind and I decided to go to L &S?</p>
<p>Check the CalSO FAQ #3. [Frequently</a> Asked Questions](<a href=“http://services.housing.berkeley.edu/NSS/Content/faq.html]Frequently”>http://services.housing.berkeley.edu/NSS/Content/faq.html)</p>
<p>I guess it can’t really be done before CalSO. You won’t be totally screwed though. You will still receive help with signing up with which ever classes you want/need.</p>
<p>I would just tell them that you intended to apply as undeclared in L&S but inadvertently selected the similar sounding “undeclared/natural resources” on the form. It is not a big deal to switch in most directions between colleges, although switching INTO the college of engineering is a different, more difficult situation. It is basically a formality to switch into L&S, unless you are on academic probation due to very poor grades, have not paid seriously overdue bills for tuition, or something like that.</p>
<p>DUDE stay in CnR. you get a bachelors in science and free printing</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help! I will just call the AO and see if I can change the college. If they won’t permit so, I will change the college after I go to Cal. It doesn’t seem so difficult to go to L&S though.</p>
<p>eminemgotrobbed- The problem is I plan to go to Haas.</p>
<p>If you plan to go to haas, you don’t even need to switch colleges, you can apply to Haas from college of natural resources, that is unless economics is your backup major. </p>
<p>I just looked up college of natural resources for the first time today, and I have to say I am impressed with these majors, I just assumed they were jokes.</p>
<p>damn if i wanted to be a doctor I would major in something in the college of natural resources.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I was in this exact same situation last year. I accidentally applied to CNR and ended up getting into Berkeley undeclared in CNR, freaking out about not being in L&S. </p>
<p>However, realize that being in CNR has no effect on the classes you sign up for, and switching out of CNR into L&S is very easy. I kept meaning to switch out of CNR into L&S this entire year (I’m a freshman), but I kept putting it off because honestly, being in CNR is pretty nice. Since it’s smaller, you get more one-on-one interaction with your advisors, free printing, and just more personalized attention in general. </p>
<p>Now, I don’t even know if I still want to switch out- I had thought that nothing in CNR interested me as well, but now I’m really liking the Molecular Environmental Biology major. </p>
<p>Remember, it’s very easy to switch out of CNR- but it’s not so easy to switch back in if you change your mind later on.</p>
<p>woeiseponine raises a very good point - registration for classes is not tied to your college except for a very very few cases where there may be seats reserved for that college and the other categories of seats are full. As long as you meet the prerequisites for a class and there is space, you can register for it. </p>
<p>You might imagine that each college has its own list of classes and its own registration, but that is not how it works at Cal. One pool of classes, one registration system, one campus - with students from multiple colleges intermixed across all of it.</p>
<p>yeah if you plan on haas just finish prereqs, if you get in you’ll have to technically transfer your college anyways</p>
<p>plus i forgot to mention:
prettier people
less asians
better buildings (vlsb vs dwinelle? shieeeet)</p>
<p>sry to rant, but l&s just treats people like shi’t. thank god im switching next semeter</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help guys!!! Let me see if I get it right- If I go to CNR, I can sign up for the same course as students in L&S ( MATHS, ECON…) Does that mean actually theres no big difference from CNR AND L&S before I declare a major? Another question, do I have to choose course in NATURAL RESOURCES such as environmental science? Can I go to CNR without studying NR? B/c I am really not interested in it at all…</p>
<p>Yeah, you got it right. CNR is a smaller college than L&S, so there’s better student support, smaller classes, easier classes to get into, and as someone already mentioned above, you get a B.S. instead of a B.A. and free printing.</p>
<p>Plus, you can take any of the classes you were going to take anyway from CNR instead of L&S. It’s only after you declare that your major/college status affects your enrollment, and if you’re going to apply to Haas anyway then that’s a moot point.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you stay in CNR, you can actually graduate without studying natural resources or taking an environmental science class. Majors like Society & Environment or Conservation & Resource Studies are interdisciplinary, and so you can take pretty much whatever classes you want within reason.</p>
<p>The College of Natural Resources does have an [Environmental</a> Economics](<a href=“http://cnr.berkeley.edu/site/majors/eep.php]Environmental”>Environmental Economics and Policy | UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources) major whose lower division requirements are fairly similar to that of the Economics major. Indeed, you can take Economics 1, Math 1A-1B-53, Economics 101A, Statistics 20 or 21, and various breadth courses in your first two years and be able to do either the Economics major or the Environmental Economics major.</p>
<p>According to the [career</a> center](<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]career”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm), Economics and Environmental Economics have fairly similar job and career prospects for graduates.</p>
<p>Note that you can do the Environmental Economics in either the College of Natural Resources or the College of Letters and Science.</p>
<p>This is so sad and funny at the same time, but I did the exact same thing! Actually, it wasn’t so funny because I had a panic attack when I first realized my mistake. But it was comforting to see that my mistake wouldn’t be impossible to deal with.</p>
<p>The thing is, I’m as undeclared as one can ever be right now, but I was leaning towards studying environemental science and still am. Most likely, I won’t major in it though, but I am definitely thinking about getting a minor in it. Yet on the other hand, my other possible majors are pharmacy and english, so would it be more beneficial for me to switch to Letters and Arts or should I stay put in CNR.</p>
<p>What really concerned me is that on the CNR website, their listed majors only included environmental science related subjects. Am I understanding correctly when I say that even though english isn’t a listed major on the CNR website, I can still major in English while remaining in CNR?</p>
<p>If you want to major in English, you’ll have to be registered in L&S, either as your home college, or as an additional college with CNR as your home college if you decide to do simultaneous degrees in Environmental Science and English.</p>
<p>It won’t be hard to switch to L&S from CNR later down the road (i.e. three or four semesters in) if you do decide to major in English. I finished simultaneous degrees in English and Society & Environment (in CNR) last year, so if you have any questions about either major, or doing both at the same time, just shoot me a message.</p>
<p>Woolybugger51: Wow! What are the chances, I am totally thinking about doing something like taking simultaneous degrees in those 2 subjects. Thanks so much for the offer.</p>
<p>I just have one more question. From what I understand, the first year of college is mostly about fullfilling general requirement that have very little to do with your actual major. If this is so, why would being in CNR be a problem for getting class selection counsel for the first semester (CALSO).</p>
<p>In the CalSO stage, there’s not really any difference in class selection counsel. Of course, for CNR sessions, they’ll steer you towards classes like EEP 1, ESPM 6, ESPM C12, etc. which you won’t need to take if you decide to major in English. If you take basic classes that fulfill general breadth requirements during your first few semesters while you try to decide which major you go into though, you’ll be fine in either orientation program. And I hear CNR gives you free bags at orientation. :)</p>