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[quote=Anonymous]UC Berkeley publishes acceptance rates by major choice for transfer students. While they don’t do it for freshmen, I thought they could be applied to freshmen. There is a 50% acceptance rate for those picking American Studies as a major choice. We are instate, BTW. I made my son pick American Studies for Cal and Davis and similar majors for other UC’s. It didn’t work for Cal but did for Davis. Once he enrolled, I took a look at what faculty was specializing in. It’s absolutely absurd. Here’s one area of study:“Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism.” Here’s another faculty’s area: “ maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s. Cartwright is at work on a second book examining how, in the early-to-mid twentieth century US, chronic illness came to be understood as a gendered, racialized "social burden." My DS switched to Economics as soon as he could.[/quote]

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