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Being a transfer won’t hinder your opportunities to get research opportunities. The difficulty of getting research depends on the field. </p>
<p>As for CCC students that have gone on to get PHDs, i don’t know any personally but heres one that transferred to berkeley as an undergrad and is now getting his phd at berkeley for math: <a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/~sparks/cv.pdf[/url]”>http://math.berkeley.edu/~sparks/cv.pdf</a></p>
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The courses aren’t difficult once you get used to them. I’m doing applied math/econ and i’ve had 3.7+ for the past 3 semesters. As for the econ courses, it really depends on whether or not you do the mathematical/grad school track courses. The qualitative courses are really easy. The hardest course for econ majors would probably be econometrics.</p>
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i’d live in an apartment simply because its so much cheaper but you don’t know anyone in berkeley at all it might be easier to just dorm and meet some people and then get an apartment the year after.</p>
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I used to goto UCSB which was on the quarter system and i liked that a lot more. By week 13+, you’ll start to get really tired of school. The nice thing, however, is the dead week before finals.</p>
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They are absolutely brilliant. My experience has only been in quantitative courses in the math/stats/econ department but these are some of the brightest graduate students in the world and it really shows.</p>
<p>I recently just thought of a question:
Besides completing major classes, are there any other requirements you need to worry about to graduate? Like are there a minimum number of units you need to complete if you get accepted to L&S? (assuming all pre-reqs, igetc, etc are dunzo).</p>
<p>Good to know. Belated, but I really appreciate your help CalBearGuy!</p>
<p>@redoplease This addresses your question: [Degree</a> Requirements-Summary of Degree Requirements](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/intro.html]Degree”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/intro.html)</p>
<p>CalBearGuy- i am also a Cal student who transferred in the Fall. I would disagree with you that studying abroad is as difficult as you say. I will be applying to go to France in the Spring of 2012 and will be able to successfully & not too stressfully manage this goal.</p>
<p>@KelliC03 Since you have some experience, do you mind if I ask you a question?</p>
<p>If I get in, I’ll be an anthropology major and one of the major requirements is only offered in spring and must be taken before the senior year. I can’t very well spend my first semester elsewhere, and the link I posted above indicates that there is a residency requirement for the senior year. It vaguely states that it is flexible for students who want to study abroad. Would you know anything about how it works?</p>
<p>I am really interested in transferring to cal from a cc. I was just wondering if greek life was an option for juniors. It seems like that is only a real thing for freshmen, but I thought it would be a great way to meet people. Also you keep talking about TAP, what is this?</p>
<p>Berkeley Transfer Alliance Project- Helps people get into UCB</p>
<p>As your counselor about it</p>
<p>Any chances there is some information about it online? I can’t seem to find any.</p>
<p>how are Environmental Economics and Policy and Economics majors different? and why you pick Environmental Economics and Policy? is it tough to get to Environmental Economics and Policy department?</p>
<p>I am soooo sorry, I’ve been pretty busy this last week and haven’t been able to check here, I see that other people have picked up the slack, which is much appreciated.</p>
<p>The whole study abroad thing wasn’t based on m personal opinion, it was based off what my adviser said, to whoever was disagreeing with me.</p>
<p>@Kayla1134: Greek life is most definitely possible for transfers, I know plenty of transfers that have rushed successfully (I’m not going to comment on how well they did their first semester tho LOL).</p>
<p>@halloweenprince: EEP is a composition of different fields (economics, environmental science (those are the main two), political science, biology, and chemistry). Whereas economics is pure economics. When I was transferring, I emailed the adviser while I was filling out the UC application and she said the average GPA for EEP transfers is a 3.6, take from that what you will; I can’t give you an exact measurement of how difficult that is. I chose EEP because I love science and economics, and this major helped me bring them both together.</p>
<p>Again, sorry about not being here, stuff came up. I’ll try to be on as much as possible, until Jan 18th, and then it’s back to coal mines for me ;)</p>
<p>I was looking into the EEP minor. I am just wondering if they will make me take 2 calculus classes and 2 economics classes before I can declare.</p>
<p>I know Econ major is a capped major so it’s competitive. Is EEP the same thing? Do I need to apply for EEP major at the 1st semester? I plan to major in Econ but EEP is my alternative major just in case. I’m a junior transfer student.</p>
<p>@BerkeleyOrBust: You would have to take those classes prior to transferring as far as I know (on the econ side only Micro is REQUIRED, but I would suggest you complete macro as well).</p>
<p>@halloweenprince: Well if econ is your major, ull be applying to econ during ur first semester, if you don’t get in after ur first semester (you get under a 3.0) then you can apply for EEP (for CNR, I think you need a 3.0 and L&S you need a 2.7 I believe, but you can always ask later).</p>
<p>You guys only do EEP if you actually want to do EEP, dont switch to it because econ is impacted; from what I’ve gathered from other students and teachers at Cal is that EEP courses tend to be more difficult than econ courses, so it would suck to be stuck doing something you don’t truly enjoy.</p>