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04-23-2008, 02:20 PM
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| duh! im super anxious about grad school! | 
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04-23-2008, 02:23 PM
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| chickadee: You have a solid shot. GPA is a bit on the low side for social sciences. Hopefully they take your work and family situation into consideration. I applied as a history major so we are applying in the same academic division. Someone from UCB said that the admit rate is going to be 20% this year for social sciences. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:23 PM
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| yeah, the big kahuna! any mcb majors out there? | |
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04-23-2008, 02:24 PM
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| 20%? Great.... | |
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04-23-2008, 02:25 PM
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| Ugh, I think I should stay away from this website, it's totally making me even more anxious, lol. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:26 PM
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| Yea I guess it's really hard to get into social sciences. Humanities is close to 50% admit, sucks how it works like that. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:28 PM
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| That is so far from the truth; Torrance, you really should put more thought into what you're saying. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:28 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| It sucks that history is a social science at UCB in some other UCs it is considered a humanity. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:29 PM
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| That's not right. I suppose UCB's history department takes an ss approach to history then? | |
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04-23-2008, 02:30 PM
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| Not sure what they do, but the admit rate sucks. I was looking up data and the last 3 years or so it's been around 29%. 4-5 years ago it was even worst, like in the 15% range. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:31 PM
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| fijeeboi you're a history major? | |
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04-23-2008, 02:31 PM
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| Ektaylor-I am emphasizing on how hard is it to get in to Cal! | |
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04-23-2008, 02:32 PM
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| I don't know if they take more of a Social Science aspect of history at UCB. But whether or not history is a social science is a hot topic at every institution. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:32 PM
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| Kal: yea i'm a history major. I received income verification paperwork from Cal financial aid. So i'm kind of counting on getting in there. If I don't, I will be looking for the closest tall building I can find. | |
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04-23-2008, 02:33 PM
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| Torrance I see your point. When I consider the competitiveness of the major with some of the stats from statfinder it seems a lot of the people I know applying to UCB surprisingly fall into that 50/50 category. | |
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