<p>My sisters have been telling me how much harder it is to get into Berkeley school of Engineering compared to say Natural Resources. (All 3 are Berkeley Alumni)</p>
<p>Well, I've read an article from the Daily Cal that was from 2001 and it said the acceptance rate for EECS is 11%. That was then, so imagine the acceptance rate now since the number of applicants is continually record breaking. And acceptance into CoE is based on the major chosen, so acceptance rate varies slightly.</p>
<p>....</p>
<p>O_O;;</p>
<p>Holy crap, it's much harder than I thought.</p>
<p>The School of Engineering is by far the most selective at Berkeley, and EECS is the hardest major to get into within Engineering. I think they have something like 17% and 12% acceptance rates, respectively.</p>
<p>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was exactly what I was going to do..</p>
<p>Argh.</p>
<p>Be glad you're not out of state too.</p>
<p>Well, I'm out of state and going for Mech. Eng. Do I have anything to be glad for? Naa, prolly not.</p>
<p>Yeah, you're smart enough to want to go to Berkeley. And for your sake I hope you can handle not getting in (if that happens), and realizing you'll be fine somewhere else, too. That's something to be glad for, eh?</p>
<p>haha I'm oos and applying for eecs with non stellar stats. XD dooomed</p>
<p>My stats will probably look like:</p>
<p>SATI: 2300~
SATII: (3x) 750~
GPA: 4.3~ UCGPA
Rank: top 1% out of 782
ECs: Officer of a couple clubs, Science Fair, NHS, bunch of clubs, research paper at Jisan Research Institute, and a couple more.</p>
<p>Will I have a good chance?</p>
<p>I think that would give you a good shot, or at least I hope. LOL, that looks eerily similar to my stats and I applied EECS.</p>
<p>It comes down to how well you write your personal statement.</p>
<p>Did you persevere and overcome any hardships?
Any major incidents that forever changed your life?</p>
<p>If you don't get in Flippy, I'm doomed (applying as Eng Undeclared) :P</p>
<p>Insane UC GPA...</p>
<p>It all goes by a point system. Youre major has a point cut off after which you get rejected and above which you get accepted. The more smart people applying the higher the cut off and the tougher it is.</p>
<p>Unless of course Berkely doesnt use the equation but im under the belief they and all UCs do.</p>
<p>gender also plays a role -- you have a better shot if you are female....</p>
<p>That's not true. It's just that less females apply.</p>
<p>you are correct, less girls apply.....any adcom, even the ones at MIT, try to balance a class, to the extent that they can......</p>
<p>Let's just say I was rejected from EECS OOS with 800x3, 780, 710 SAT scores, 11 APs (10 5's), 4.5 UC GPA, state awards in math and chemistry, top 50 in U.S. National Chem Olympiad, National AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, etc. I ended up getting a 3.9 from UIUC and attend Stanford for grad school now.</p>
<p>That's pretty crazy! It feels good to be in Cali...</p>
<p>I know someone who got in with 3.7 UC GPA and 600s on his SATs. For UCB, stats aren't everything. But you see how everything can work out even if you don't get into your first choice college for undergrad. Thanks blue, that's truly reassuring to hear.</p>