<p>Does Haas pick its students upon admission or do students apply at the end of their first year?</p>
<p>Is it hard? which ever procedure it is?</p>
<p>Just went to CalSO and listened for an hour on this stuff. You apply to Haas at the beginning of Soph year and begin Haas in your junior year. Approx 50% of applicants are admitted. You are given 2-years to complete. Of course, you can apply later but you must be enrolled at Berkeley.</p>
<p>I would say that it is hard. For your first 2 years, you complete the Haas prereqs, with no assurance that you will actually get admitted to Haas. Haas then looks over your transcript, paying special attention to your performance in the prereqs, and as said above, admits about 50% of those that apply. That of course greatly understates the difficulty of getting into Haas because the fact of the matter is, a lot of people who want to go to Haas don't apply because they know their grades, especially in the Haas prereqs, are too low. Let's face it. If you get straight C's, you're not going to waste your time in applying to Haas, because you know you're not going to get in. Hence, the Haas prereq courses tend to be extremely difficult and cutthroat, because everybody in those classes is trying to get into Haas and there aren't enough admissions spots to go around.</p>
<p>Hell, when I was thinking about going to Haas, they were telling us if you don't get straight-As in the pre-reqs and GEs, don't bother. I got a B in Econ and a B in Comp Lit R1B, and then when I couldn't even get into BA 10 (was way down on the waiting list, and this is a class, where if you miss one on a test, suddenly you are at a B-) because I got @#^@ed on my telebears for second year and combined with at the time screwed up practices of the University about credits (I had enough APs to qualify as a second semester Junior, they had blocked my registration and were threatening to boot me unless/until I declared a major in L&S, it has since changed.) I gave up. My advice if you want to go to Haas is to forget about a big social life for a few years, and just focus on your studies, and let the university know you aren't planning to use all your AP credits, just to keep them off your arse.</p>
<p>holy ****, im planning to apply to haas...and wow i ddint know it was going to be this hard....but then again...if you look at the bright side...isn't everyone applying to haas feeling the same way ?</p>
<p>Personally, I think the real problem is not the competitive nature of the first 2 years of the Haas prereqs. I think the real problem is all these upperclassmen who chose Berkeley because they wanted to go to Haas, but then didn't get in, so they end up having to major in something they don't really want to study. Had they known that they wouldn't be getting into Haas, they might not have come to Berkeley at all.</p>
<p>Heh, that's funny -- because I came to Berkeley for Haas as a frosh. I hated Berkeley for a long time after it turned out I was likely not going to Haas. Oh well, got over it. Moved on.</p>
<p>Students who don't get into Haas (for business administration?), do most of them move into economics?</p>
<p>econ is a capped major though. at calso, they said that you should have a backup for econ too in case you don't get in.</p>
<p>capped major as in limited space? if Haas business administration and econ is both not available, which is the 3rd popular choice?</p>
<p>PEIS seems to be popular for econ and business majors who don't get into Haas or Econ. And for Poli Sci majors that don't want to be strictly poli sci.</p>
<p>what is PEIS?</p>
<p>Political Economy of Industrial Societies.</p>
<p>When I was there, PEIS actually had more rigorous standards than Econ did. I believe the minimum GPA was 3.2 while econ was 3.0. Things may have changed since...</p>