<p>Hi, is it true that UCB has mostly the stereotyped asians with glasses and baggy pants with a lot of pockets?? How's the social life and are there a lot of places to go with a car? Is parking space limited and hard to get??</p>
<p>How hard is it to transfer from a Letters of Arts college to engineering?</p>
<p>Although I don’t go to UCB, I’ve lived there for 2 weeks during a summer program.
I can’t answer your question about social life or academics, but I can tell you that having a car isn’t worth it. Parking is incredibly hard to find, it’s very difficult to drive in the congested city, and if you want to park your car overnight (which I’m assuming you will), the parking garages aren’t exactly that cheap. The bright side is that you don’t really need a car, since you can use BART and other local transportation to get to most places that you would need to go to anyway.</p>
<p>Parking sucks and it’s really expensive to get a permanent spot, only reason I have a car is because I need it to get to work.
Social life in Berkeley is entirely dependent on you, you can choose to hang out with academic people, study, whatever, or you can choose to get drunk every night at Frats or Co-ops.</p>
<p>It is 99.85% impossible to switch into the college of engineering. (That’s a fake percentage but its pretty close). The only way to possibly do it is to ace all your math and befriend the engineering professors. Really the only way at any top UC to get into engineering is to take the front door, not the back</p>
<p>A UC Berkeley professor won the Nobel prize in medicine today, and the big joke on all the local news stations is that he now gets one of the special parking spots reserved for Nobel prize winners. Lesson here; you do not want to have a car in Berkeley.</p>
<p>It is NOT that impossible to switch into college of engineering, I know people who did it after our first year and though I didn’t personally go through it, it didn’t seem that difficult. But yes, you have to have a good grades. The earlier you switch the easier the route, so just apply to college of engineering if you know you’ll want to switch.</p>
<p>Thanks for responses but I’m planning to apply to Letters of Arts and Science so that I have a higher chance of admission. I don’t want to be rejected just because of my engineering major…</p>
<p>Really? Nobody got offended by his racist remarks?</p>
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<p>Don’t worry, it was offensive, but the last time I remarked on something like that I got chewed out…</p>