College L&S student for CS major

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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I know for students in L&R to be adimitted to CS, he/she has to have 3.3 GPA on three courses. Is there a cap on how many qualified students can be admitted or everyone who has 3.3 GPA coule be admitted?

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Not at this point.

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Well, technically the 3.3 GPA requirement to declare is the cap – an implicit one at best – as it requires a B+ average. in three courses which have curves.

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Is the GPA scale 4? 3.3 means one A and two Bs, correct?

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@golftlist Due to the nature of averages, one A and two Bs is statistically equivalent to 3 B+'s.

(4.0 + 2(3.0)) = 3.33333…
3(3.333)/3 = 3.3333…

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http://reslife.berkeley.edu/gpa-calculator gives the point values for each grade when calculating GPA at UCB.

Note that all three of CS 61A, 61B, 70 are 4 units, so they all count equally in the GPA needed to get into L&S CS.