<p>Roughly how many (or what are the odds) of students getting into Berkeley's EECS program that didn't get Regents Scholarships at any other UC?</p>
<p>Me. But I don't know the odds and such.</p>
<p>Again, this is just working off of rumor, but supposedly the acceptance rate for the College of Engineering is 14%. Since EECS is the most selective major (besides Undeclared Engineering), I'd guess that the acceptance rate is 10%. Regents' invitations are sent to the top 3~5%, and not all are going into EECS, so I'd say that if you're in the second tier of students then you have a good chance.</p>
<p>If anything, I'm underestimating your chances, so try to loosen up, although I know that my telling you that is rather futile until you have the letter in your hands.</p>
<p>wow the acceptance rate for EECS is THAT low? I had assumed it to be at least 15%, since the general acceptance rate for Berkeley is around 23%.</p>
<p>I've heard that EECS courses are very competitive. Can anyone offer more details/examples? Thanks.</p>
<p>They're "competitive" because the people complaining are those who haven't drawn schematics or engineered software before college. Just like pre-med, half the class is in there because it's engineering and because the job field appears to be lucrative (well in pre-med's case, everyone just wants to be a doctor). Read up on fourier transforms, discrete mathematics, and amortized time, etc. and you'll have your foot in the door for both EE and CS.</p>
<p>SQL - Your major has nor bearing on whether you get Regents or not, correct? What I'm asking is, it isn't harder to get Regents as an EECS major than if you were some other non-impacted major?</p>
<p>No, it's not harder to get Regent's scholarship if you were an EECS major, because the candidates are chosen from the entire applicant pool, not from just specific majors.</p>
<p>It would only be harder for you to get the Regents' scholarship as a prospective EECS major if your EC's, high school courses, and SAT Subject tests were not math/science orientated (they don't even need to be EECS-related...).</p>
<p>SQL,
How many people actually drop out of the EECS program w/in the first year?</p>
<p>Actually BioE is just as tough or tougher to get into as EECS and Engineering Undeclared, although the order of selectivity isn't clear, according to the bioE homepage these three are the toughest to get admitted into at the freshmen level. With the new BioE facility built, I'm sure the university will use it to attract for BioE applicants as well, further increasing BioE's selectivity. (BTW, I toured the building and it was really nice!)</p>
<p>I read an article from a few years back that the EECS acceptance rate was 13%. And we all know that many, many more students apply year after year now.</p>