<p>The only difference is that for MCB, one has to take Math 1A instead of 16. Are the upper division courses harder?</p>
<p>Yes thats why</p>
<p>The IB department’s average GPA for all courses under the IB header is about 3.3; MCB’s is 2.96.</p>
<p>All the life sciences, excluding MCB, (i.e. IB/PMB/NST/etc…) all maintain average departmental GPAs around 3.3. The university average is also around 3.3. </p>
<p>MCB just grades notoriously difficultly*, and when people are only comparing MCB and IB without outside numbers, IB looks easy.</p>
<p>*only Math, Bio 1A-B, Statistics, and Tibetan grade harder (see <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/900945-average-gpa-graduating-students-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/uc-transfers/900945-average-gpa-graduating-students-major.html</a>)</p>
<p>Because classes like MCB 140 and 150 are harder than any of the lower divs.</p>
<p>so would cog sci be a better route? I’m not good at philosophy i don’t think so I’m kind of worried about switching to that too. I’m a freshman by the way and I have to choose my major early because I start taking major requirements next semester…I have nothing else to take except electives.</p>
<p>Forget what’s easier and try to figure out what kind of biology you’re interested in. Just start by doing the lower divs for both and decide after taking OChem and Bio1A.</p>
<p>stats department is ridiculous. they are so disorganized lol. my gsi told me he hasn’t even met the teacher yet and isn’t even a stats grad student haha</p>