Switching from School of Engineering to L&S

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<p>I just got my notification for the Berkeley Regents scholarship, and that I was accepted to Berkeley.</p>

<p>I applied to Berkeley's EECS major and am wondering how hard it is to change majors to Biology/Biochemistry.</p>

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<p>[Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Change of College](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/changeofcollege.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/registration/changeofcollege.html)</p>

<p>Neither molecular and cell biology nor integrative biology are capped majors, so once you get into L&S and complete the prerequisites, you can just declare either major.</p>

<p>But you should consider the decision very carefully, since switching back into the College of Engineering will be difficult (although L&S CS is currently not capped, the crowding in CS courses has fed rumors that it may be capped in the near future).</p>

<p>Also, biology majors do not have very good job and career prospects at graduation:
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;