The Polar Opposite Conundrum: LAC vs Berkeley

Student3668
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:35:25 +0000

Thank all of you for your thoughtful and sincere opinions–we are indeed very grateful!

To UCBChemEGrad, thank you. To answer your question, she is truly undecided, but probably not premed. She enjoys English, French and Biology and musical theatre and she is very outgoing. She is thinking of combining these interests with some business experience (maybe a nonprofit internship) and then on to grad school once she finds her niche.
One of the concerns that we have is the apparent difficulty of getting courses at Berkeley as mentioned in this CC thread from 04/01/08, Brown U vs UCB:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/485999-brown-vs-berkeley.html

The poster implies it is hard to explore outside your major and we keep hearing the term “impacted major” a lot. With 7,000 courses to explore, how often does this come up and which majors are impacted and how hard is it to work around?

Student615 a sincere thank you, too! We have now read numerous posts you have made about the Claremont Scripps College which are detailed. sincere, and very helpful–Scripps sounds amazing,too! So next week she will experience the “Day in Our Shoes” overnight at Scripps and the week after that she Overnights at Berkeley, then its decision time! Are there any programs for parents that you are aware of?

To the helpful people who have sent us private messages we will repond soon, but thanks to you as well.