<p>All majors have a finite number of admissions slots--not just the ones you listed. If they didn't, anybody who wanted to could come to UCB. They use what major you put on your application to "ballpark" the flow of applicants declaring certain majors. You don't actually declare a major until you get here. Meaning, if you were really shrewd, you'd apply to a major that is the least competitive to increase your chances of admission, and once you got here, you declare psych, econ, comp sci, or whatever--people don't realize this. Once you're here, nothing/no one forces you to declare a certain major--just the guilt of your "free-ridership" does.</p>
<p>Legal Studies is NOT competitive to declare--which is what I thought was being referred to when the word "capped" was used (as it is used on the Letters&Science website). And I seriously doubt undergrad admissions still keeps their LS admits to 25. (If they ever did at all). I'm not an LS major and easily enrolled in an LS class--which is about 1/2 full now, if that. (Part of this is due to attrition over the semester, of course).</p>
<p>No dorms for me...too old for that *****. But I've been in some. Part of unit 1 is newly renovated and is nice, but the rooms are small. Unit 2 and 3 are ghetto I think. In unit 3, there is the transfer student dorm, spens-black hall, if you want to be with other transfers, but it's still ghetto and small. Get Clark Kerr if you can--I've heard they're bomb-diggity. Spacious, old, but updated, etc. They're just further away than Units 1,2, and 3 are; ~ 10-15 minute walk to class. Also, you can always do the co-op thing or rent a room in an apartment/house if you're not set on the dorm life.</p>
<h1>1. Not all majors are CAPPED in that way in terms of admissions (which is what this is about--NOT DECLARING AFTER YOU GET TO CAL).</h1>
<p>In terms of applying as a transfer student for legal studies, there are only 25 spots. Again, APPLYING and being ADMITTED--nothing to do with declaring once you get to the school.</p>
<p>Also, legal studies is one of the few majors that actually admits by the major and not by a division within l & s.</p>
<p>does berkeley make the admit rates available for all their majors, like UCLA does?....like do they have a website or webpage where we can go and see all the majors, # applied/ # accepted...to each? probably not huh...</p>
<p>"does berkeley make the admit rates available for all their majors, like UCLA does?....like do they have a website or webpage where we can go and see all the majors, # applied/ # accepted...to each? probably not huh..."</p>
<p>That has been brought up at least 5 billion times. They don't have a listing for that because it would be MEANINGLESS. You need to understand their process: most majors are in divisions; admission is by division, not by major. A listing of stats for each major would be useless; UCLA's is useful considering they do admit by major.</p>
<p>This is generally not possible since most majors have a significant amount of prerequisites, and major preparation is an important screening factor in the admissions process. For most cases, I'd say an admission to Berkeley has you more or less locked into a major.</p>
<p>"This is generally not possible since most majors have a significant amount of prerequisites, and major preparation is an important screening factor in the admissions process."</p>
<p>Not really. For many majors they don't really care about prerequisities--the ones that only have a few prereqs that are rarely available among cccs for instance. I think many of the humanities majors are like this..</p>
<p>Majors like celtic studies, history of art, rhetoric, near eastern studies, linguistics, and gender and womens studies (all of which are among the less competitive, save 4 linguistics) have no explicit transferable lower div. requirements. You could apply for entry into one of these while getting your econ or comp sci requirements out of the way at JC to later declare at UCB. This is what I meant when I said 'if you were really shrewd.'</p>
<p>Moreover, others like American Studies have lower div requirements that closely parallel those of more competitive majors like Mass Comm. You could put Amer Stud. on your app and pull a fast one and declare Mass Comm once admitted w/ relative ease. I was about to declare econ, even tho I was admitted under poli sci, and nobody was going to balk about it--not with the enormousness of this bureaucracy.</p>