Haas School of Business

[sakky]

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The difference is, while admissions to Haas is very competitive (since Haas is many students’ first choice, while Econ is often the backup), it’s harder to get good grades in Haas prereqs (think weeders like UGBA10). Econ on the other hand, has way fewer major prereqs so I could easily see someone stack up on easy classes and bolster his GPA. It seems to me like it’s not very hard to get into the Econ major if you really want to.

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<p>Stacking up on easy classes to bolster your overall GPA doesn’t really help you, because admissions to the Econ major are predicated mostly on your GPA in Econ ** prereq ** courses. Hence, if you do terrible in all of the Econ prereqs, then getting a string of A’s in Film Studies isn’t going to do much for you.</p>

<p>*The main criterion is academic performance as measured by GPA in the prerequisite courses.� The average GPA in prerequisite courses for students admitted to the major in recent years has been a 3.4.� The economics major is impacted and to be considered for admission students should have a minimum of a 3.0 in the prerequisite courses.� Students with a GPA of less than a 3.0 are typically not admitted. *</p>

<p><a href=“http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/hb1.shtml?hb02[/url]”>http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/hb1.shtml?hb02&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And here are the prereq courses. While they’re obviously not as difficult as engineering weeders, these courses ain’t no joke either.</p>

<p><a href=“http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/hb1.shtml?hb03[/url]”>http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/hb1.shtml?hb03&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>So it seems to me that if you do poorly in these courses, cherry-picking a bunch of easy courses in other disciplines isn’t going to do much for you.</p>

<p>In particular, you should note the Haas prereqs, many of which overlap with the Econ prereqs. Hence, if you do poorly in these prereqs, you will probably be denied from both Haas and from Economics. </p>

<p><a href=“Application Process - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas”>Application Process - Undergraduate Program - Berkeley Haas;