<p>People say Berkeley is a really "specialized" school..So they consider if you suit berkeley or not by judging how certain you are about your future career? (I'm not==)</p>
<p>BTW, is changing college/majors difficult in UCB since it's a public institution?</p>
<p>oh, and which college in UCB is easiest to get in/ is the hottest?</p>
<p>Thanks=]</p>
<p>The College of Letters and Sciences treats all applicants and all incoming freshmen as undecided. You generally declare a major at the end of the sophmore year or beginning of junior year. It doesn’t matter what you put down as long as it is an L&S major, or undeclared. </p>
<p>Cal is not a specialized school and as far as we all can tell, there is no correlation at all between certainty in your future career and admissions to UCB. </p>
<p>Changing majors is generally very easy. A few are harder to get into, such as engineering majors or a very few constrained ones where you apply competitively after your first two years. Otherwise, no problem. The only issue is that you need pre-req courses for majors and may need to satisfy the new pre-reqs before declaring the new major, but there are caps on the total number of units you can take at Cal, to stop people from staying 5, 6, or 7 years as they continually shift majors. In most cases, the answer is that it is easy to switch majors.</p>
<p>Changing colleges in Cal is easy or not depending upon the direction of movement and whether you have the grades and pre-reqs to make sense. If a history major in L&S were to try to switch to the college of engineering after two years, it can be hard and there are many courses that would have been needed. On the other hand, switching from COE to L&S is pretty easy, as long as you don’t have a poor GPA. </p>
<p>L&S and College of Natural Resources are probably the easiest to enter, COE and College of Chemistry the most difficult. Hottest? That really depends on your interests, potential major and so forth. Hard to go wrong regardless.</p>
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<p>That’s a rather big conditional. Engineering grading at Berkeley is draconian, especially within the weeder sequences; plenty of engineering students have dreadful GPA’s.</p>