<p>I know at UCB that some majors are impacted. I'm accepted to L and S and am planning on either econ or cs as my major, and the other as my minor. I know that econ is definitely impacted and I've been told that CS L and S might be impacted in the near future, and I know the procedure is that you're in L and S undeclared until you get accepted by your major. What are likelihoods of getting rejected by an impacted major, and are you pretty much forced to transfer schools if you do get rejected by your major?</p>
<p>It depends on your personal abilities in the subject, your study habits, and your willingness to put in the work. I’ve been in the same dilemma–I want to do Econ–so take a look at the prerequisites and the GPA requirements (3.0). There are a few advising videos about Econ on YouTube. And the Econ department explicitly advises all prospectives to plan for an alternate major (or you could transfer out).</p>
<p>Do you have a natural aptitude for the subject areas you want to study? More importantly, are you willing to do the work? And if you don’t make it into your major, do you have a backup plan you’re happy with? </p>
<p>Personally, math is a weakness for me, and because I’m not sure that I could make the cut for Econ (and for other reasons too), I’m leaning away from Berkeley at this point.</p>
<p>This might help a bit:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/1424114-prospective-economics-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/1424114-prospective-economics-major.html</a></p>
<p>Admission standards for capped or impacted majors depend on how popular the majors are relative to its capacity. Most common is a GPA minimum, but other methods might be used, such as social welfare accepting major declarations from students who passed the prerequisites on a first-come-first-served basis.</p>
<p>Do you have an alternate non-capped major in mind that you could do?</p>
<p>(e.g. applied math, statistics, political economy, etc.)</p>
<p>[Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: List of Majors](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/majorlist.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/majorlist.html)</p>
<p>What are the chances of getting rejected from econ despite meeting all of the gpa requirements of econ? And are there any other criteria, like subjective ones?</p>
<p>Bump, I’m still confused on how people get accepted/rejected from a capped major, especially for LS econ and potentially LS CS, which I heard will be capped soon. For capped majors, are you pretty much in if you meet the gpa and course requirement or can you still get rejected.</p>
<p>Admission standards for capped majors are set by the department. You may want to check with the department of each capped major you are considering to see if the criteria is just GPA, GPA plus other criteria, or something else (e.g. first come first served for social welfare).</p>
<p>Check out the Econ department’s prospective major page: <a href=“https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/undergrad/prospective[/url]”>Applying to the Economics Major;
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<p>As a freshman, this means you need to fulfill an average GPA of 3.0 for:
[ul]
[<em>] two semesters of calculus, using AP Calc and/or Math 1A-B/16A-B
[</em>] intro econ, either 4-5 on both AP Econ exams or Econ 1 or 2
[<em>] a statistics course
[</em>] an intermediate economic theory course: one of 100A, 100B, 101A, 101B, or UGBA 101B
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<p>The criteria for admission to the CS major (once it’s capped) haven’t been announced yet.</p>
<p>Let me just say that you really have to screw up to not get into Econ. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Well, hopefully CS will be the same if/when it gets capped, so I can freely decide between when the time comes. It just scared me a little after reading this post back when CS was capped in 2006.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2628049-post13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2628049-post13.html</a></p>
<p>L&S CS still has an application process, although it is currently mainly a formality to verify that you have a 2.0 GPA, the required courses, and ability to complete the major in reasonable time:</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> L&S CS Students | EECS at UC Berkeley](<a href=“CS Major Information | EECS at UC Berkeley”>CS Major Information | EECS at UC Berkeley)
<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/cs_major_petition.pdf[/url]”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/cs_major_petition.pdf</a></p>
<p>what are the chances that they might make CS LS as competitive as, say, applying to Haas (I only mention haas for comparison only)? Since it seemed like that way in the past from the threads i’ve read that were dated back before 2007.</p>
<p>Here is the business class profile:
[Class</a> Profile, Undergraduate Program, Berkeley-Haas](<a href=“Class Profile - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Class Profile - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas)</p>
<p>However, business has additional non-academic criteria as listed here:
[Admissions</a> Criteria, Undergraduate Programs, Berkeley-Haas](<a href=“Application Process - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Application Process - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas)
which means that admission to business is less predictable than to a capped major that just uses academic criteria (courses and grades).</p>
<p>For example, a prospective economics major may know that s/he will be admitted to the major with a 3.5, but a prospective business major with a 3.5 still faces considerable uncertainty in admission to the major.</p>
<p>Based on <a href=“CS Major Information | EECS at UC Berkeley”>CS Major Information | EECS at UC Berkeley; , it looks like L&S CS, if it becomes capped requiring a GPA higher than 2.0 for admission, will use only academic criteria for admission, unlike business.</p>