The selection process for invitation of seniors occurs twice per year. Transcripts are automatically reviewed. Invitations are sent in March to those who qualify based on their record through the previous fall semester (including Summer and December graduates) and in July for those who qualify based on their record through the previous spring semester (including Spring graduates). Invitations are sent by email. The homepage will include an announcement of when invitations are sent.
Criteria for Seniors
- Completion of first semester of senior status (this is to be understood as the completion of one’s seventh semester of college work, or the intention to graduate in the current semester).
- Minimum GPA (for those graduating in August 2024, December 2024, or May 2025): 3.93
- Minimum units earned: 95
- Minimum units earned in L&S courses: 75
L&S courses include both those offered by departments in L&S and approved courses offered by non-L&S departments that satisfy the L&S Seven-Course Breadth Requirement.
- Minimum letter-graded units in L&S courses: 45
(These must be earned at Cal or another UC campus.)
- The 75 units under 4 must include the seven courses that satisfy the L&S 7-Course Breadth Requirement. The Foreign Language Requirement should also be satisfied.
To learn more about the L&S 7-Course Breadth Requirement, please visit https://lsadvising.berkeley.edu/seven-course-breadth
To determine the eligibility of a course offered outside of L&S, use the search function of the Berkeley Academic Guide (https://classes.berkeley.edu) using the filter for Breadth Requirements; or search for the particular course, then click on the course name in the results to display its full information, which will show which (if any) breadth requirement(s) it satisfies.
Criteria for TRANSFER students.
NOTE for students in College of Engineering or College of Chemistry.
Beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, students from the College of Engineering and the College of Chemistry who have very high GPAs will no longer be selected by the algorithm that creates the list of candidates presented to the selection committee for vetting. If you are a student in either college and believe that you have sufficient breadth in the courses you have taken, you are invited to submit a request for review of your transcript (see the general eligibility criteria page).