Hwow huge are the classes?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>If I want to be a pre-med major, am I gonna be stuck in classes with 600 kids and have to work my butt off to get >3.5 or is that just a myth about berkeley?</p>

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<p>From Each school’s common data set</p>

<p>Percentage of classes with fifty or more students:</p>

<p>Brown=12 percent</p>

<p>Harvard=13 percent</p>

<p>Berkeley=15 percent</p>

<p>Percentage of classes with fewer than twenty students:</p>

<p>Brown=65 percent</p>

<p>Rice=60</p>

<p>MIT=61</p>

<p>Berkeley=58 percent</p>

<p>Draw your own conclussions.</p>

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<p>Honestly, its not that hard to pull get a 3.5 in MCB if you apply yourself. Many of the lower division premed classes (Chem 1A, 3A/B, Math 1A/B, Physics 8A/B) are quite large (~350 students) but you also have discussion sections with about 25 students where you work together and get mini-lectures/clarification from a GSI. Also office hours are held a couple times a week by the professor and a few more times by the GSIs.</p>