Likelihood of Major Change at UCB

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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Hi all,

I am a prospective transfer student from De Anza College (Bay Area in California) and I’ve applied to UC Berkeley for Political Economy. However, I’ve recently been considering switching majors to Economics once I am at Berkeley (this assumes I’ve been accepted). I’ve completed the prerequisites listed on assist.org for Economics due to the prep coursework for the two majors overlapping and the prerequisites for Econ being general enough that I took them because I would have to at some point anyway.

As both Political Economy and Economics are in the College of Letters and Sciences, how easy would it be for me to transfer to the Economics major?

Some general info:

GPA: 3.74

Major GPA for Political Economy: 4.00

Major GPA for Economics: 3.61
(I got an A in both Macro and Micro econ honors and a B+ in Calc A and Calc B)

CCC I am transferring from: De Anza College

I figure that’s all the relevant information; please let me know if I can provide any more info that would be helpful to you guys.

Thank you!

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https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/undergrad/prospective/transfer-students

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Since I do fit the requirements there, does that mean I won’t have an issue getting accepted to the major even though I’ve applied for Political Economy?

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The main issue may be that Economics 100A/100B/101A/101B may have limited space. If the department gives registration preference to new transfers who had indicated economics as their intended majors over other new transfers, that could be an issue.

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I see, thank you for the information!