Yale vs. UC Berkeley vs. UPenn for Molecular Biology/Biochemistry

ucbalumnus
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:59:50 +0000

Net price at each school? Future professional goals?

At Berkeley, neither molecular and cell biology nor integrative biology is a capped-enrollment major (what people typically mean when they refer to impacted majors). However, they are two of the largest majors on campus, so even many upper division courses are quite large, and their lower division prerequisites have huge enrollment. The flip side is that that there are lots of course offerings and research areas available because the departments are huge.

Because (at any school) pre-med courses are mostly the same as the lower division prerequisites for biology majors, expect to be in classes with pre-meds who need to get high GPAs to get into medical school.