<p>I applied for fall'10 semester and want to know how difficult it is to get into nuclear engineering at berkeley (in comparison to other types of engineering)</p>
<p>I think it should be same as other engineering majors, except for EECS and Chem Engineering.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>and also except for bioengineering and engineering undeclared.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the admissions rate for engineering majors are about equal except for EECS, Bioengineering and Undeclared Engineering. Those are slightly more selective.</p>
<p>it isn’t too hard, although there are only like 20 people in the entire department</p>
<p>My room mate is a nuclear engineer and he told me that there are only 17 people in the program for his class. He also said that they like to look at people who has done well in math and sciences; he has finished multi-variable calc and every AP science class back in his high school.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply as nuclear, but I’m just curious. Are there only 17-20 people in it because they only accept a few people, or because not that many people apply for it?</p>
<p>It’s because not that many people apply for it.</p>
<p>i though chem engineering was easy to get into because its in the college of chemistry</p>
<p>I know a fair number of people who’ve transferred into Chem E. from L&S Chem, but they all had epicly high grades.</p>
<p>However, I don’t know that CoC stuff is hard to get into so much as hard to survive. You don’t seem to learn a whole lot that you wouldn’t in 1A when you take 4A, but the test questions are dramatically harder (often in really, really contrived ways). 4B’s a bit more interesting.</p>
<p>will being out of state be the death of me though? 
thats what i’m worried about</p>
<p>@jonnosferatu</p>
<p>L&S Chem?</p>
<p>@Yon Yonson:</p>
<p>[L&S</a> Majors - Chemistry](<a href=“http://ls-major.berkeley.edu/chem.html]L&S”>http://ls-major.berkeley.edu/chem.html)</p>
<p>I’ve got no idea how the hell he didn’t get in Chem E. short of forgetting to mark it properly on his app. (4.0 across 4 classes if you don’t count his P.E. class…and I can’t fathom what went wrong there).</p>
<p>I have an BS from Cal in NE (hence my name) and it’s fairly easy to get into the major because it is not as popular as other engineering. But if you find that you really prefer another type of engineering, transferring into another engineering is not as easy as going from one impacted major to another. I saw a few end up in L&S.</p>
<p>I’m not saying it’s easy to get into NE, just easier than some other engineering majors at Cal. You still need to meet incoming freshman engineering standards for Cal. </p>
<p>I was there a long time ago, but I had the best time. I wish they still had the TRIGA up and running there. I learned a lot that way.</p>
<p>How hard would it be to change schools/majors into Nuclear Engineering? I am a Fall’10 admit into the Physics major in L&S. I really like Physics but I’m thinking about switching into NE because it’ seems to be a more practical application of what I like about Physics. I know switching schools in of itself is a fairly difficult task, but would switching into NE make it even more difficult?</p>
<p>I think you’d be OK as long as your grades were decent. It’s definitely worth looking into. As an aside, I chose NE because I felt it was a more practical application of what I liked about physics too. :)</p>