UC Berkeley - Class of 2022 Applicants Thread

ElenaParent
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:34:06 +0000

@MomLA2018
There are separate “University of California requirements” and “College (L&S) Requirements” (are we talking Letters and Science?). https://ls.berkeley.edu/advising/degree-requirements

For “University of California requirements” (“Entry level Writing” and “American History and American Institutions”) you can use SAT, AP, and high school stuff.

For L&S requirements, you have “Essential Skills” and “Seven Breadth” requirements. “Essential Skills” have three things inside: “Reading and Composition”, “Quantitative Reasoning” and “Foreign Language”.

“Reading and Composition” can be satisfied in several ways: https://ls.berkeley.edu/reading-composition-requirement
As you see from this link the score of 5 for AP Lit indeed satisfies both A&B parts of the R&C requirement. The score of 4 will get you out of only part A. For those kids who did not take AP Lit for whatever reason, and do not have any other boxes to check in the first table from the link above, - they have to satisfy R&C in some other way. One of these ways is CC credit for a specific course (sometimes taken during specific year), and/or a Berkeley course from the approved list of courses (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/reading-composition-requirement/#RC).