got it, has it not been confirmed that the establishment of CDSS will allow for an increase in space for each of the 3 majors it contains?
I don’t believe information about that has been released. It’s most likely we will only find out after the fact how many students were admitted.
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if i selected an alternate major in L&S and get waitlisted, will i still able to select that i’m okay with enrolling in Fall Program for First Semester if i get off the waitlist? or can only those who chose a primary major in L&S do this?
The future is hard to predict but I would guess stats will likely have higher rates than CS/DS.
To answer your other question, highly unlikely that establishment of CDSS will allow for increased space for CS and DS. EECS funding remains constrained and I would venture to say CS/DS spots will continue to be limited with perhaps modest increases over time depending on funding levels and collective bargaining contracts with student instructors.
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I have a kid at Berkeley, not in CS/DS, but with a lot of friends in those majors. The students’ expectation is the major will become more restrictive. Berkeley, they argue, made this change because they do not have the facility and staff for the students they have. Berkeley needs to decrease the number of students in CS, according to current students. We will see what ultimately happens.
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Yes to this!
Good luck to all who are waiting for results 
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does berkeley have a cap on how many students they accept of each major at a particular high school? at my school last year, we usually only had one student for each major get accepted to berkeley. is this just a coincidence?
I don’t think there is a direct major specific HS cap. For instance, some schools like Lynbrook and Montevista are notorious feeders to some of the highest demand majors (CS, EECS). I can’t imagine there being a hard cap but there is a natural regional diversity that might occur in the admissions process which may effectively act as such.
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I had a sudden wave of nostalgia and had to check this page. Good luck to all. I recall the craziness, chaos, heartbreak, and elation vividly haha. I see there’s some discussion of majors and thought this may be relevant to students who are thinking of Econ major. It was high demand my year (2023) but was recently sent this email.
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Since Econ is not a high demand major anymore, does that mean it would be easier to get accepted in the major?? I applied to Econ this application cycle for fall 2024
Since this is a recent change, it’s not clear whether current applicants for the Econ major for Fall 2024 were evaluated by major during the application process. At this point, though, it’s probably not worth wondering about whether this would have affected the likelihood of admission, one way or the other, for any student. Decisions will be released soon.
(Good luck! )
If you are in fact admitted, it appears that Econ will not be considered a HD major for the entering class in Fall 2024. All students will be able to apply to declare Econ through the regular process described on the Econ web site.
Here is the Econ department’s page about the admission process: https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/undergrad/prospective
Here is the “New Policy FAQ” for Econ: Google doc link
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Anyone attended the webinar today…what is your take on the pupose of doing it a week before the decision date…!!!
Our school (bay area) usually has a 30% acceptance rate at berkeley but a 15% acceptance at UCLA and San Diego so I think there might be some regional factors in decisions. LA people are very different than San Fran people. Maybe they don’t think we’d be happy in each others neighborhoods!
Yes. Seems odd to do it a week prior.
I don’t know what the purpose was but my kid went to the zoom. Honestly, I can see emails accidently going out to everyone and then they were stuck with it. And that is why they had to move the meeting to handle the large number of registrants.
My student’s Bay Area high school shows a similar pattern. I think it’s more that Cal has become very familiar with Bay Area high schools, does regular outreach including Berkeley counselors embedded at the school site. And in our case, the yield is consistently high- approaching 75/80 percent- which I’m sure helps with their enrollment management. The yield for UCLA is much lower.
True, my kid attended the zoom, she was telling about the majors taken for the global edge…also there was slide on the composition of the % paricipants…and cohort size…in freshmen edge they are going with online curriculum for summer …overall looks they are adding some extra number and revenue offloading candidates to London and summer…
yeah my daughter was talking about London. She is interested but the ball is in Cal’s court…
All UCs give preference to CA residents. It seems UCB gives more attention to NorCal applicants.
Question for those senior members here: For UCB/UCLA freshman admission, in-state has advantage over out-of-state. But for the waitlisted, still the case?
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Not necessarily NorCal applicants. I can’t speak for Bay Area applicants. But, The local kids in greater Sacramento, are almost always denied, it’s a major event if anyone actually gets in, especially if they aren’t athletes. And even with athletes it is still pretty rare.