Hey guys, I am a current transfer student planning on attending UCB next year! I was accepted for Economics and am worried about the difficulty. All I have heard about from Berkeley is the difficulty and the stress, but the rewarding experience - these people were all engineering majors however - but this is hard to compare to a community college. I am hard working and I want to get a high GPA. I know that my GPA will dip due to the fact that it is Berkeley; however, I do not want it to tank. I am planning on taking the less math intensive path. If you are in the economics department or a transfer student, please let me know about your experience! Thank you!
I’m in your current position – I’m a transfer, but have heard dreadful horror stories about how rigorous that Economcis is. I think Economics is fascinating and have never struggled with it in the intro courses, but from what I understand, and this is according to my friends who are Economics graduates from Cal, it isn’t easy. It was also mentioned that in order to be successful, you have to be a quantitative person, as opposed to a qualitative.
But based on the date of your post, I imagine that you’ve already picked your major! Did you end up choosing Econ?