Does anyone else find Haas decisions ridiculous?

[tastybeef]

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Sounds bad, but most transfers IMO are not up to par with the most competitive and best students at Haas, even though they must have been top at their CC to transfer over. I think it says a lot when you avoid joining group projects with transfer students…

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<p>This rings true for biological sciences as well.</p>

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At least you know what you need to do to get into the program and have a safety blanket. I applied to Haas, berkeley offers no alternative major, so if I had gotten rejected i can’t go to Berkeley at all!! You all still have the luxury of going to a top notch economics program.

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<p>Uh, not quite. As sakky pointed out before, nobody can count on getting into Haas or Econ even though the selection criteria are posted on the Haas website. And the choice of an alternative major for continuing students isn’t a luxury, it’s part of being admitted to Berkeley. For freshman admissions, Berkeley admits by colleges and sometimes majors (ex. BioE, EECS, etc.). Freshman applicants don’t get to choose alternative colleges or majors to apply to, so if they are rejected, then they don’t get into Berkeley at all, just like transfer applicants. It would be unfair for transfer applicants to get alternative majors when freshman applicants don’t have this option either.</p>

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This should not, however, lead to over generalizations of transfer students. No mattter what they pump into your brains when your there, none of you are better than me just because you’ve been at Berkeley longer.

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<p>Calm down there. No need to get all butthurt and defensive. This isn’t about you as an individual, this is about the general transfer student. You’ve met dismal Haas students and we’ve met many terrible transfer students. Our experiences are as valid as yours.</p>