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<li>Yes. Bio majors are all the same except for maybe 2-3 classes that are different.</li>
<li>50-350 people. Depends on popularity of the class, whether it’s needed for the major, etc.</li>
<li>Most of my professors are rockstars in their own field. And by rockstars, I mean like…the Beatles, not some garage band started up 2 months ago by teenagers and have 25 fans. It hardly matters that your school has Nobel Laureates or incredibly famous people (in my opinion). They’re not going to be the ones teaching you because they’re too busy giving talks and becoming more famous than they already are, and they will only take on the best of the best graduate students and maybe the occasional undergrad to autoclave. But it is cool to have professors talk about big names like Fred Gage (guy that said neurons can regenerate), Bing Ren (transcription regulatory elements) and Roger Tsien (GFP) in class. However, if you really want some names dropped, Kadonaga, Price, Crawford, Gage (adjunct), Nieh, Saier and Berg are pretty darn cool people that you can take classes with. I took classes with 3 of them.</li>
<li>Most engineering, yes. Some are hard to get into, like bioE.</li>
<li>comparable. Research is plentiful and amazing. Given the CA budget, you may even be safer taking the Regents offer. Guaranteed housing, money and MOST IMPORTANTLY, first to sign up for classes. They’re cutting classes every year and you’re going to kill yourself trying to sign up for classes that have a 200 person waitlist. Telebears at Berkeley doesn’t sound too fun either.</li>
<li>There is a pre-nursing club and wide-ranged support for all pre-health students. HMP3, PASS, and others will point you in the right direction as well. Volunteering is abundant and easier than Berkeley simply because within 2 miles of campus, there are 3 hospitals and many special clinics (Cancer Center, Eye Center, etc.)</li>
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