<p>I screwed up. I selected EECS when I really should have ticked L&S CS. not because it's seen as "easier" than EECS, but because I really could care less about EE and focus on my real passion, math/CS. I selected EECS without reading the fine print (I was just thinking of a BS in CS) and yeah.. not good. I can feel it in my gut that I'll be rejected. I didn't make my initial app as strong as it could have been and I know it. Hell, I caught a typo in it the other day!</p>
<p>Would appealing change anything? I'm so embarrassed to admit to admissions that I made such a huge error because I didn't read into my choice of major. I do have other "new and compelling" info to add, such as recent promotions/traumatic circumstances in frosh/soph year that affected my GPA tremendously (I was 4.2+ in junior/senior years)</p>
<p>3.7UC GPA, 2220 SAT, tens of thousands of hours of work experience as a commercial software developer over 3 years, and my employer can vouch that I've blown away other candidates with BS's in CS and half a decade my senior. I'm confident as a bull I am ready for CS at Cal, tough as it is.</p>
<p>Any advice to go about the appeal process from people who have been admitted that way previously?</p>
<p>The appeal process is not an impossible process and I know at least one person who got in b/c they were honestly expressing how much they want to be at Berkeley. If you tell them what you think and why you belong at Berkeley, I think that is the best you can do.</p>
<p>However, I think the real fun at EECS starts at junior year with the electives you take and you don’t miss that much in the first 2 years with all that weeder courses you need to go through. Consider transferring if you are able to wait; there is nothing wrong/shameful with that.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of hours of work experience as a commercial software developer? I’d be very surprised if you were rejected, even though your GPA is mediocre.</p>
<p>Yes, I graduated in 2009 and have racked up a professional portfolio that recently nabbed me a job as CTO of a Los Angeles startup. It’s a well paying job above the average pay for Stanford undergrads, and its painful to leave the company just when its being courted by accelerators/incubators.</p>
<p>I have never found CS or math challenging, so I am dying for a chance to really be pushed at Cal.</p>
<p>edit:
I just did the math. I’ve worked for over 10,000 hours, not tens of thousands (i guess it felt like I did!) my bad. 6 years of work, since I was a junior in high school.</p>
<p>^Well future class of 2015, there’s the guy who makes the curve for your lower division CS courses at Berkeley for the next two years lol.</p>
<p>Congrats though dustinthewind, that is really impressive and I’d be shocked if you didn’t get into EECS with your stats, I think you make up for your GPA with those other stats in my opinion.</p>
<p>That’s flattering, divio, but I’m certain that many at Cal are far more capable than I am. I’m turning 21 this year – its not fair to compare my achievements to those of a stressed out high school senior juggling a million things. When I was 18, I wouldn’t be considered competitive by any stretch of the imagination</p>