<p>anybody majoring in this?</p>
<p>anybody here transfer into this major from a community college?</p>
<p>is it common for people with 4.0s to get rejected from this major?</p>
<p>if you dont know the answer to that,</p>
<p>how about L&S?</p>
<p>is it common for transfer students applying to the letters and science majors with 4.0s to get rejected?</p>
<p>nobody knows anything about this major or how competitive it is to transfer into it?</p>
<p>It’s easy to get into. The GPA requirement is lower than Econ’s 3.0. In addition, they have some annoying requirements, one of which is that you need to know a foreign language.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe that the required GPA is 3.5 and it is considered a prestigious major. The PEIS students think so, at least.</p>
<p>False.</p>
<p>To declare Development Studies, students must:</p>
<p>Have completed IAS 45 or achieved a score of 5 on the world history high school advanced placement exam; and
Have completed Econ 1 or 2 at UC Berkeley or completed the equivalent at another college or achieved scores of 4 or 5 on both micro-economics AND macro-economics high school advanced placement exams.
Have a major and cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher;
Not be in their final semester of undergraduate work. </p>
<p><a href=“http://ias.berkeley.edu/iastp/peis/admission.html[/url]”>http://ias.berkeley.edu/iastp/peis/admission.html</a></p>
<p>You mean PEIS, no?</p>
<p>Interesting. I wonder if they changed it recently. PEIS students a few years ago were always going on and on about how difficult their degree is to declare and there was a presumed superiority over measley poli sci. Perhaps they were just lying…?</p>
<p>According to my peer advisor, the minimum GPA required for PEIS has been lifted recently (probably b/c it’s not impacted anymore).</p>
<p>When the Political Economies of Industrial Societies was first formed, there was a separate program dedicated to developping world, that was initially called Political Economies of Non-Industrial Societies, until someone realized what the acronym for that program was, after which they went with Development Studies instead…</p>
<p>PEIS and Development Studies are separate majors today. The students tend to be very different – the DS kids are (in my opinion) driven by a love for the subject matter and are more idealistic; the PEIS kids are more… pre-professional.</p>
<p>i appreciate everybodys input so far, but i’ve been getting mixed answers lol…</p>
<p>so its not impacted anymore…and the gpa ‘has been lifted’?</p>
<p>lol so by lifted, you mean its gotten easier?</p>
<p>basically my concern is…</p>
<p>if i go to community college, work hard, and complete the requirements, and get straight a’s (or at least, near a 4.0, like 3.8, 3.9)
then will i have problems getting into this major?
i mean, is it common for them to reject 4.0 students? </p>
<p>also, would anyone happen to know how useful this major is? i mean is it kind of useless and taken less seriously compared to econ and poly sci? or is it still a good program that happens to be a combo of both?</p>
<p>My cousin is a PEIS major. You can probably look at the average GPA transfer had, or at least the acceptance rate into the major from transfers. I’m not exactly sure how “useful” the major is, but I think it can translate well into actual international jobs. Say some Berkeley students (most of whom don’t know the program that well) take it less seriously than econ, or poli sci, does that make the major less useful, or less good? The best I can do for you is this. The statistics for PEIS are more favorable than poli sci, but there are far more poli sci students than PEIS students in the survey because of the larger department, greater general interest in the major, and greater number of students graduating yearly. You might also notice one went to Stanford Law, another Harvard school of Education. If you do well in the major, and have some “peoples skills” and a bit of luck, there’s no doubt you can do well in politics, business, or whatever. </p>
<p><a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/PEIS.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/PEIS.stm</a>
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/PolSci.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/PolSci.stm</a>
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm</a></p>
<p>I think part of the reason PEIS students feel it is harder to do PEIS than say poli sci has to do with number of courses required, including the foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>thanks a lot, drab</p>
<p>looking into those links, i feel more comfortable about transferring into the major…its just kinda nerve-wrecking when i have no idea how hard it is…i just hope the transfer rate isn’t too low</p>
<p>so pretty much, everyone has a guess, but nobody on this entire forum has any idea how competitive it is to transfer into this major, aside from what they’ve heard? = ( man…anyone out there please???</p>
<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Transfer_06.pdf[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Transfer_06.pdf</a></p>
<p>Groups together a lot, and has 35% as the average for all it includes. That seems to be the best we can do.</p>