<p>From some source I read on the berkeley website,</p>
<p>About 2100 students declare pre business on their application (as in applying for colleges in november).
Each year, ~500 apply for Haas, and ~50% admitted.</p>
<p>So that means 75% of students who wanted to do business in the beginning ends up following another route!</p>
<p>Another statistic:
~1000 students apply for bioE
about 300 are in the bioe program at any time, and 33% consists of transfer students, so
<75 students are accepted at the freshmen level is <7.5% admit rate!</p>
<p>"About 2100 students declare pre business on their application (as in applying for colleges in november).
Each year, ~500 apply for Haas, and ~50% admitted.</p>
<p>So that means 75% of students who wanted to do business in the beginning ends up following another route!"</p>
<p>no, that would mean 88% choose another route.</p>
<p>firax, you need to account for the large number of students who didn't mark those fields on their UC applications and yet turn to those fields when they come to Berkeley.</p>
<p>Well, what about those that decide not to apply because they think going to Berkeley would be too hard or that they wouldn't get in or something? Actual not-acceptance rates (rather than rejection rates, if you don't actually apply) are probably significantly higher than actual percentages.</p>
<p>Some people put down business to appease parents with no intent to actually do it, or put it down until the find something better. I don't know if it's true that all those who write business want to do business, that there is a scale of desire and some people's desire is next to nothing.</p>
<p>Dobby's point also makes things harder to calculate . . . :)</p>
<p>I was considering doing biology and filled out I was an intended "biology" major on the SAT and other such surveys, but I never took a single bio class at college.</p>
<p>Not to sound like an a**, but uh, Haas really isn't that hard. I don't get why people always hype it up. Pre-business is not tough like engineering or subjects that are actually hard.</p>
<p>2,100 may have marked it on their application, but do they all get accepted? Even if they are accepted, do they all matriculated?</p>
<p>Let's assume a 25% overall acceptance rate. That means 525 of the 2,100 are accepted. Berkeley's matriculation rate is around 60% I believe? That means approximately 315 students who declared pre-business are accepted and matriculate. According to that, more students apply to Haas than the number who declared pre-business.</p>
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Another statistic:
~1000 students apply for bioE
about 300 are in the bioe program at any time, and 33% consists of transfer students, so
<75 students are accepted at the freshmen level is <7.5% admit rate!
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That would mean 50 students at the freshman level. 300*(2/3)/4=50</p>
<p>However, once again, you forget to take into account the matriculation rate. If 1,000 (both transfer and freshman) apply, assuming 60% (once again, I don't know the exact rate) matriculate, that means 1,000<em>(x)</em>.6=75. x, or the acceptance rate, is 12.5%, almost double what you had originally thought.</p>
<p>NeedAdvice, I don't think people say Haas is hard once in (you said "Haas" in your first sentence but "pre-Haas" in the second, so that was to the first). But getting in? Some say it's pretty tought, at it seems to me that it is fairly tough, especially with things like classes which seem to lack easy grading scales such as UGBA10 in which everything seems to count, the small numbers of malicious overly competitive people. I guess we could start a thread talking about how hard it really is to get into Haas instead of hijacking this one, though. :)</p>
<p>Drab...I just got the impression from the Haas statistics in this thread that it's supposed to look really tough, which is why so many don't pursue it or only a handful actually do it. I actually don't care though, so it'll be my last post here.</p>
<p>At Calso, the counselors told us that around 500 undergraduates apply for Haas every year and only 190 are accepted. The other 60 spots are set aside for transfer students.</p>