Hi. I will be attending Berkeley and I had a question about the pre-requiestes. In high school I took calc BC and got a 4 on the exam. For the college of letters and sciences, this will get me out of math 16A and allow me to take 16B right away (which is what i would do as an econ major). However, Haas AP credit says that only a 5 gets me out of 16A. So to do haas would I have to take 16A and 16B or just 16B?
According to http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/aplist.html , for the business major, you can take any of the following:
16A, 16B
1A, 1B
1A, 16B
(1B,) 53
(1B,) 54
If you take 53 or 54 for the business major, you do not need any other math courses, but 53 and 54 list 1B (not 16B) as the prerequisite. The math department considers a 3 on AB or BC to allow skipping 1A, and a 5 on BC to allow skipping 1A and 1B, according to https://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/ap-exams . You can check your knowledge of the content of Berkeley math courses with the old final exams at https://math.berkeley.edu/courses/archives/exams .
If you are interested in the quantitative version of the economics major, you need to take 53 and 54.
You’d have to take 16A and 16B if you want to apply to Business.
If you were only planning on doing Econ, then a 4 satisfies the AP requirement and you could skip to 16B.