https://ls.berkeley.edu/ls-high-demand-majors-first-year-students
https://statistics.berkeley.edu/academics/undergrad/major
For economics, it could be that the business major moving to a mostly direct frosh admit model means that there will be fewer pre-business students who will pile into the economics major as a backup after being rejected in the business major’s secondary admission. For statistics, it could be that the relatively new data science major has soaked up the demand for such that previously piled into the statistics major.
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I’m trying to understand how this might impact the transfer acceptance rate for Econ in the future. If they are easing the GPA requirements they are likely to receive greater applications driving the acceptance rate lower than it is now. Would that be an accurate assessment?
And out of curiosity, I am wondering if the transfer rate into Haas is also likely to significantly decrease. In 2 years time they will already have a cohort of students entering their Junior year which would mean very limited space available if at all.
Assuming you mean external transfers from community colleges, etc., it may result in economics being less selective than before, due to not being as capacity limited as before.
Business will probably remain similar for external transfers, since the frosh direct admission likely targets almost the same number of matriculating students that secondary admission for frosh entrants previously admitted. That would leave the same amount of space for external transfer admission.
yes, sorry I should have clarified I meant transferring from a CA community college. Thx!