4,261 Average GPA

Admits   
14,101
11,130    11,441    10,844    10,528    10,474
 % Admitted   
20.8
18.0
21.6
21.5
21.6
21.6
Enrolled       
4,162
4,443
4,109
4,356
4,261
Average GPA       
3.84
3.83
3.84
3.80
3.90
Berkeley received 77,485 freshmen and transfer applications for admission to the undergraduate program in Fall 2012; 14,527 were admitted (18.7%).[94] Of the Fall 2011 cohort, 97% of freshmen enrolled the next year. The four-year graduation rate for the Fall 2007 cohort was 61%, and the six-year rate was 88%.[85][95] Admitted freshman applicants had an average high school GPA of 4.16, an average ACT Composite score of 30, and an average combined SAT score of 2067 (average SAT scores of 674 for Critical Reading, 701 for Mathematics, and 692 for Writing).[96] Berkeley's enrollment of National Merit Scholars was third in the nation until 2002, when participation in the National Merit program was discontinued.[97] 31% of admitted students receive federal Pell grants.[98]
There were 18,231 applications to masters programs with 20% admitted and 14,361 applications to doctoral program with 16% admitted.[85]


The north side of Doe Library with Memorial Glade in the foreground.
Library system[edit]
Main article: University of California, Berkeley Library System
Berkeley's 32 libraries tie together to make the fourth largest academic library in the United States surpassed only by Harvard University Library,