UC Berkeley Class of 2030 Official Thread

Welcome prospective Cal Bears. It’s that time of year again as the UC application has now opened and submission starts October 1 through December 1 for this admission cycle. I am @Gumbymomone of the two UC Forum Champions/Moderators. My Co-Forum Champion is @lkg4answers and we are knowledgeable on the increasingly complicated UC admissions process and hopefully we can help any prospective UC applicants with their questions along with frequent UC Berkeley posters which includes @tamagotchi and @worriedmomucb.

UC Berkeley like all the UC’s are test blind and will use 13 areas of criteria to review Freshman applicants. Each campus will weight the various areas of criteria differently so one size does not fit all. UCB does consider AP/IB scores in their admission process.

Freshmen Requirements

PIQ specifics: Personal Insight Questions - Office of Undergraduate Admissions

The UC application website has plenty of information that can help determine if UC Berkeley is a good option when applying.

UCB will consider all 3 UC GPA’s, with an emphasis on the Unweighted and Fully Weighted UC GPA’s.

2025 Freshman (First year profile) 25th-75th percentile:

Capped weighted UC GPA: 4.15-4.29
Freshman Admit rate: 11.4%

**UC Berkeley has not yet released the Unweighted or Weighted Uncapped GPA data for their Class of 2029 (2025 Freshman) but I will update this post with that information once it is available.

UCB Freshmen major admission information:

Major choice is a factor for admission into the College of Engineering (COE), the College of Chemistry (COC) and the College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS), Environmental Design and HAAS.

Changing majors within the CoE after enrolling is not guaranteed, unless one is CoE undeclared.

Note that L&S admits students as undeclared except for the High Demand majors listed below. UCB also lets you select an alternate major which will only be considered in the waitlist process.

HIGH DEMAND MAJORS:
Art (Practice of)

Public Health

Operations Research & Management Science

Political Economy

Social Welfare

All students who apply to UC Berkeley and select a major within the College of Natural Resources are evaluated based on their application, not on the particular major they select.

Alternate majors will be considered if space is available usually during the waitlist process.

Most selective majors are found in the College of Chemistry, Computing, Data Science and Society, Engineering and HAAS along with the High Demand majors in the College of Letters and Sciences.

UC Berkeley campus tours: Campus Tours | Visitor Services

Best of luck to all applicants.

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UC Berkeley Admissions added several new videos to their YouTube Channel this month. Below are direct links to a few. Visit the channel, for more videos.

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I am not sure when did uc change application format . We don’t need to record our grade on application but school counselor sends our transcript to uc directly. Then they review our grade by 11 th. Correct?

Not correct. Where did you find that information? Please watch this video for details on how to complete the current application. https://youtu.be/DXGv_fN1Cxo

Uc application. It asked if we will agree to send my transcript to UC. So my daughter click v . Then counselor said that he got email to send transcript to UC schools. So i think it is changed.

Maybe , not all schools . Anyway, UC only takes by 11 th grade transcript,

It looks like high schools have until 2026 to get this set up. Radware Captcha Page

I think I remember that you have kids at some UCs and nieces/nephews at others. Is it your nephew who applied last year? And they didn’t have the CCGI set up? Were they at the same HS as your daughter?

The student must have the CCGI account set up and then they can upload their transcript information from the Californiacollege.edu website.

My daughters and son got into ucla and berkeley 2016, 2022 and 2024 . This is my last daughter. I am curious bc we write senior classs on uc app before. But our transcript won’t send senior class information. So actually UC doesn’t know what my D is taking senior classes. Our counselor got message from UC to send my daughter’s transcript. So I don’t think to set up something for this.

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Oh. My kids didn’t go to UCs . They went to pomona college and Claremont mckenna. Oldest graduated UC berkeley, works in mckinsey

UC Counselor conference updates and information are listed below.

UC Berkeley 2025 Freshman admitted GPA’s (middle 50%) were an Unweighted UC GPA of 3.90-4.00 and Weighted Uncapped of 4.32-4.68.

UC Berkeley 2025 Freshman Waitlist data:

Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: N/A
Number accepting a place on the waitlist 9101
Number of waitlisted students admitted 0

New majors for 2025 are Electrical and Computer Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Korean Language & Culture.

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