UC berkeley majors

Applying to College
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<p>HEY! i have no idea what major I want to do… like at all. and I HEARD that marking undecided has its downfalls… so I was wondering what major at UCB L&S that I could pick that is easy/low impacted but that I could still switch from it to other L&S majors!!
here are my stats if these help at all</p>

<p>GPA: 4.11
honors physics (A) /AP lang (B) jr yr
Unwtd~ 3.8</p>

<p>SAT:
over all 2110 but hopefully ill get ~2200 in november</p>

<p>CR- 700 (retaking in november should stay the same)
M-710 (retake in november im guessing ~ 750)
W-700 (retaking in november ~ 750)</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math2:740
Physics: 740</p>

<p>Activities:</p>

<p>Student Volunteer @ Library
• Grades participated: 11, 12
• 6 hours per week, 11 weeks per year
• Helped with summer reading programs for kids; organized books.</p>

<p>Intern at Charity
• Grades participated: 11, 12
• 4 hours per week, 42 weeks per year
• Worked at/organized fundraisers</p>

<p>Museum Volunteer
• Grades Participated: 10
• 20 hours total
• Gave tours and learned extensively </p>

<p>Chemistry/ Physics Peer Tutor
• Grades Participated: 11, 12
• 5 hours per week, 11 weeks per year
• Peer tutor for Chemistry and Physics students</p>

<p>JV Track*and Field
• Grades Participated: 10, 11, 12
• 8 hours per week, 13 weeks per year</p>

<p>Non profit Org. High School Club Founder and President
• Grades Participated: 12
• Organized volunteers</p>

<p>French Honors Society
• Grades Participated: 10, 11, 12
• Extensive study of French Culture; Current Club Officer/Treasurer</p>

<p>Physics in and Through Cosmology
• Grades Participated: 11
• SELECTED for week long summer workshop, studying modern physics at LBNL and UC berkeley</p>

<p>Guitar
• Have Played for 8 years
• Performed at festival one year</p>

<p>Link Leader
• Grades Participated: 12
• Member of Link Crew; Helped organize and lead the Freshman orientation</p>

<p>Awards and Honors:</p>

<p>Student of Excellence Award</p>

<p>Honor Role
• Years awarded: 11, 12</p>

<p>************************also I dont know where to put this but i had an article published in the news paper and I proofread the ebook of a new york times best selling book.</p>

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<p>Bump bump bump</p>

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<p>All applicants to Berkeley L&S are considered without respect to major, and all students admitted to Berkeley L&S enter as undeclared. A few [L&S</a> majors](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/majorlist.html]L&S”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/majorlist.html) are capped (marked with # in the list in the link), so you may have to maintain a higher GPA and/or go through an admission process to declare the major after completing the prerequisites.</p>

<p>An L&S student changing to or adding a major in another division (Engineering, Chemistry, Business Administration, Natural Resources, or Environmental Design) typically requires going through an admission process (which can be very competitive). These other divisions may have different levels of freshman admission selectivity compared to L&S (and Engineering does have different levels of freshman admission selectivity by major, and you cannot apply directly to Business Administration as a freshman).</p>

<p>Basically, if you apply to Berkeley L&S, put any major you want, as long as it is consistent with what you write in the essays (i.e. don’t put down Comparative Literature while writing about your intellectual passion for everything other than literature).</p>

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<p>I’ve decided to go undecided
But for my essays the world I come from is about my ethnic heritage and culture
The other is about a contribution I made to a non profit that I volunteer at. So I don’t really discuss a major.</p>

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<p>Based on your courses and activities, would be a good guess that you are considering majoring in physics? Be aware that that physics has a 7-semester long prerequisite sequence (6-semester long if you start in a more advanced math course due to AP calculus credit), so you would need to start off the math and physics course sequences early to stay on schedule.</p>