I’m hoping for Quantitative Analysis / Applied Econometrics for grad school / career so Econ alone wasn’t enough to demonstrate the quantitative skills that I needed. That said, most finance opportunities do not require that much. Stats and/or Math with a cluster in Economics will put you on even footing with most Haas grads for the more technical and quantitative positions. Networking and soft skills are far more important than your major.
As far as job recruiting: general recruiting is very good on campus, but the best use of your time here is to leverage the Berkeley name into summer internships with the big companies which in turn will more than likely lead to full time positions at graduation. EY and Deloitte have been scouring the campus hard recently and other major players like Morgan Stanley, Black Rock and Towers Watson are very active. Diversification is a big thing right now so as long as your okay with going to far flung destinations, it’s not too bad. The competition is indeed very cut-throat but non-traditional sources like Ford and Oracle are there as well so it’s kind of hard to be left out in the cold unless you have a red flag (usually residence status or GPA) or are not actively trying.
Taking econ courses as a non-major is tough. Your automatically waitlisted for all upper division Econ courses and it’s impossible to get into a popular course or one with a good professor. Realistically, your relegated to only the courses no one wants to take (8AM courses, bad professors, non-versatile subject matter). You won’t have an issue eventually getting the required classes to graduate, but you won’t necessarily enjoy the process of getting them or who you take them with. Taking summer courses alleviates the difficulty significantly, but, again, your much better off using that time to accrue experience with an internship.
As far as a double major: Yes, two courses can double dip. Without at least one summer session it’s impossible to realistically finish the double major in four semesters. I had some issues with finishing mine in five and I had to take an abnormally large workload during my second semester along with the Transfer Edge program prior to my first semester to make it work. Econ & Stats is the most popular double major on campus but since your a non-econ admit I honestly don’t recommend planning on it unless you get lucky and are able to snipe an Econ 101A course for the Fall or take Econ 100A/B over the summer. It’s not worth fighting all the logistics and red tape otherwise. (It’s practically impossible for non-econ admits to get into the core classes needed to declare the Econ major as the fall classes will be just too impacted.) IMHO taking more practical courses in R, STATA, and Hadoop instead of more economic theory will serve you much better in the long run.
Yeah that doesn’t make sense because I got accepted to CAL for media studies with only a 3.1 gpa no joke! I’m actually terrified lol. I think UCLA is better than cal though in terms of our major so congrats :)!
Major: Business Administration
GPA: 3.78
Major GPA: 4.0
Major Pre-reqs Completed (Y/N): Y
Breadth Requirements: 4 left to do
Applied: UC Berkeley, UCLA and USC
Accepted: UC Berkeley
Denied: UCLA
Waiting: USC (June 1st)
@HaasBounded finding housing in Berkeley is pretty difficult. Some people have recommended to me that if I choose to find my own housing that most students go as far as Oakland, Richmond, Alameda etc. to find housing. If you look in the “Uc Berkeley Transfer Class of 2017” group on Facebook some people are posting about looking for roommates.
I actually doubt that I will be attending CalSO. I am a supporter of workshops and meeting with counselors, but I have never truly benefited from them personally. I met a good friend at my current/soon-to-be former four year orientation two years ago, so it can be a good way to meet people. Especially for those of you who are living on campus or looking for roommates. If you are considering going, then I was say go for it.
Personally, however, I would be paying $210 dollars, waking up at four, driving an hour and a half during both morning and night traffic hours, to hear a lot of things that I have likely already researched myself or will if the topic arises. I’d probably be more delirious from exhaustion and anti-social than anything. lol
“It is expected that all new students attend CalSO. However, we understand it might not be possible for you. Students who cannot attend will receive information about the next steps from their college and from New Student Services, including course registration information.”
So it is probably best to make arrangements for class registration sooner rather than later!
Ok so I’m looking for all the advice I can get on this conundrum of choosing between UCLA and Cal.
UCLA I got admitted as Pre-Global Studies major, Cal told me I got into the College of Letter & Science (whatever that means) but I applied as a Peace & Conflict Studies major. I plan to go to law school right after my BA and if the they had Global Studies as a major at Cal going to Berkeley would be a no brainer. My only hesitation is that I might be passing up on a better program at UCLA because I would rather be near San Francisco and because I feel like I would vibe better with the people at Cal, and well, because, it’s Berkeley. I live in LA and I want that change of scenery and I want to do something new but not at the expense of a lesser education. I read an article from a few years ago that some graduates from the Peace & Conflict Studies major made a petition to the dean for cutting the program’s funding and not being able to compete with other similar programs in the country because of that. Does anyone know anything about how the reputation of this program is now? I’m dying to go to Cal I just need to be reassured that it’s the best choice for what I want to study and eventually do.
I am also accepted in Berkeley! Physics major. I am a russian girl ))