<p>Does Berkeley look at UW GPA? They don’t even get transcripts during application season.</p>
<p>Berkeley admissions readers see 10th-11th grade HS GPA in a-g courses in three forms:
- unweighted
- weighted with +1 for honors/AP courses, capped at 8 semesters’ worth of +1 honors/AP points
- weighted with +1 for honors/AP courses, uncapped</p>
<p>Transcripts are not used because applicants self-report courses and grades in the UC application (from these self-reported courses and grades, the above GPAs are automatically calculated). The final high school transcript is required after matriculation; it is used to verify the previously self-reported courses and grades, and see that the student did sufficiently well in previously reported 12th grade courses. This greatly reduces the number of transcripts that need to be handled by both the universities and the high schools.</p>
<p>You report them and when you decide to attend UCB, you must submit a transcript of your highschool</p>
<p>are there other colleges with EECS, besides Umich?</p>
<p>MIT</p>
<p>any colleges where there is a chance of getting without having to be an absolute genius? </p>
<p>Northwestern, Case Western Reserve, Oregon State, UCI, University of Kansas, University of Central Florida, University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Washington State, UC Merced, Colorado School of Mines, Tufts all pop up in DuckDuckGo/Google results for “EECS.”</p>
<p>When you guys say that the program (like EECS) splits into CSE and ECE, does that mean you have to choose one program and drop the other?
I am really interested in computer science (programming) and EE and really wanted to know if I could do both in my bachelors and masters degree…</p>
<p>Are you asking about UCB? Check the catalog but I don’t think you are allowed to do that because the 2 majors are very similar. </p>
<p>@robotics5000 You can set your courseload up however you’d like. But ofc at one point you’ll have to decide whether you prefer high or low level programming. But the names (CSE and ECE) imply some emphasis on breadth. Most CS majors who work on things with heavy ECE involvement (like robotics) also end up with a good knowledge of EE. So don’t think you’ll be losing anything by having your degree go one way or another.</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice! yeah - i really really am passionate about both EE and CS. is Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) or Computer Engineering (CE) a perfect blend of both? <-- this is what i have been hearing from a lot of people lately - wanted to check the validity of this statement</p>
<p>Yes that’s what my field is. I have an undergraduate in EE and masters in CE but I took mostly CS classes. I also have taken more software courses since I graduated with my MS. You are always learning or you get behind.</p>
<p>For my daughter’s school if you do CSE with CE you have to take some EE and some CS. UCLA has the same CSE. At UCB it is called EECS and also at MIT.</p>
<p>I think the division between CS, CE, and CSE is mainly for intellectual satisfaction. Most graduates will work in software engineering. I had a degree in CE during the dinausour age of computer. It covered CS + plus about 1/3 to 1/2 EE (the program was longer than EE program). All classmates I know and myself work in software development. CE and CSE will help to specialize more in gradudate schools to become chip designer and computer designer.</p>
<p>Robo, advice here, do not use the term passionate any where in your essay because it’s one of the most overuse term on CC.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the great advice! The thing is - I’ve always wanted to go deep into CS (OS + machine level deep) and equally deep in EE…I just don’t know if CE or CSE or EECS for that matter will help me to do this…
That’s why I’m Interested in doing a double major - so I can fully experience both EE and CS and go deep into both, despite knowing that double majoring in on engineering is really hard…
@DrGoogle - thanks for the data point! I believe I need some other way to convey my interest …however, I actually am truly passionate - I started robotics at the age of 5 and have been coding + building + learning since that age (I’m 16 now)…in all humility, passionate might be a tad understanding it 
Regardless, that piece of info might be extremely useful when it comes to writing college essays etc.</p>
<p>Robo, that’s good that you have deep experience in EECS. Your essay will not be like other essay, truly memorable.</p>
<p>OP - You can convey your passion with those cool examples… with or without the overused “passionate” word. </p>
<p>You are ahead of a lot of hs students refining your interests. But you may evolve even further as you take your college courses. Stay open minded and enjoy the ride </p>
<p>The 4.6+ GPA rejection from Berkeley’s EECS is a true story for me 
And I would never know if I would have gotten into any good schools (maybe Berkeley non college of engineering) because Berkeley is only one of two schools I applied to and the other school is a low tier.
Good luck with your application!</p>
<p>@tangentline - that’s crazy! I know people who have had a 4.3 GPA and have been admitted to EECS…
I’m assuming from the circumstances that a super interest in Engineering will qualify you for EECS, as long as you haven a decent GPA (at least above 4.3)…</p>
<p>Personally, I am pretty scared. EECS (basically CE), out of all the other engineering choices seems to be my perfect match…
Besides UCB, I literally can’t think of any college that is fantastic with EECS and relatively “easy” to get into</p>
<p>umich and Vanderbilt are basically the only other EECS programs that seem really good, besides MIT of course, which is legendary…</p>
<p>I’m also looking at CMU…I heard that the CS program is the best in the world and am really interested in that school…but i don’t know if that is too hard to get into.</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry for the typo - have been doing robotics since the age of 6, not 5</p>