<p>Has anyone taken post-baccalaureate studies and then applied for I School or any graduate school at Cal? Is it advisable? Do adcoms look at it favorably or negatively? How do adcoms factor in your post-baccalaureate certificate into admission? </p>
<p>Can anyone who applied to I School share their experience? What was it like and what advice would you give prospective applicants who are interested in applying in the future?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Do you mean the School of Information?</p>
<p>[Admissions</a> | School of Information](<a href=“http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/admissions]Admissions”>http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/admissions)</p>
<p>If so, note that no specific undergraduate degree or course work is required, so it is not obvious why one would want to do a post-bacc to apply to the School of Information. The master’s degree program prefers applicants with at least two years of work experience and some computer programming competency as a prerequisite for Information 206 (looks like someone who did reasonably well in CS 61B or a similar course elsewhere would fulfill that).</p>
<p>Yes, I meant the School of Information.</p>
<p>Could anyone who applied share their experience?</p>
<p>The admitted student profiles are so diverse and I just wanted to get someone’s perspective on the whole admission process. </p>
<p>As for not having a specific degree, I was wondering if GPA is then a huge factor in the admission process? How about the rigor of the classes you’ve taken? Work experience?</p>