<p>How about finances? Are you chasing need-based FA (Financial Aid)? Or merit scholarships? Or neither? (ie parents are on board for up to $60K/year expenses). </p>
<p>@robotics5000 For CMU, apply to both SCS and CIT ECE. If you do the computer software track in ECE, your classes will be very similar to those of CS anyway. And there’s no real drop in job prospects (100.0% success for both), plus you get to keep open the option to do BME as a double. Many Robotics doubles here also tend to be ECEs.</p>
<p>@colorado_mom - finances is alright. it is pretty affordable when talking from a 0 - 30,000 price range.
the problem with merit scholarships is that they are so tough to get, esp for these top-tier colleges…</p>
<p>@dividerofzero - yeah i guess you are right! my main concern though is getting in first. these colleges seem to be pretty ridiculously tough to get into.
i knew a few people with a 4.8+ GPA who were flat-out rejected by both EECS at Berkeley and ECE at CMU (these people were really involved in engineering stuff, which really surprised me when i found out they were rejected)</p>
<p>Are you instate for CA? If yes there are other UCs that’s easier than UCB EECS.
You might get some merit aid.</p>
<p>yeah i’m instate but i’m not interested in any of the UCs besides UCB EECS
if i don’t get into UCB, i will probably look outside CA, like UMich, UT Austin, Vanderbilt, or Carnegie…</p>
<p>“finances is alright. it is pretty affordable when talking from a 0 - 30,000 price range.
the problem with merit scholarships is that they are so tough to get, esp for these top-tier colleges…” </p>
<p>Sorry. I did not understand your answer. Once you go out of state, most schools will be over $30K (some up to $60K)…unless you qualify for need based FA. </p>
<p>Only reading this page of comments, I noticed that you’re a California resident… take a look at UC Santa Cruz. It could possibly be an affordable “back-up.” </p>
<p>Many years ago when CS meant dealing with punch cards, the department was establishing itself. I believe UCSC now has an Engineering School. If you have any interest in bio/chem/medical application, take a look at UCSC’s genomics work.</p>
<p>UCSC’s main strength, in general, is its attempt to create a more intimate atmosphere academically & for student life than a campus like Cal or UCLA. </p>
<p>You’re welcome to PM me re: Santa Cruz… however, you’d probably benefit most from searching through the UCSC website.</p>
yeah i’m a local californian resident. thankfully the fees for UCB aren’t as bad when you’re instate.
^ still looking to get some kind of aid, especially because of academics
These are great answers! When my son was looking, and before I’d found this site, I couldn’t find anyone to explain the differences! My son is interested in CS but several schools we looked at didn’t have CS in the engineering school, so I didn’t know what to think. Believe it or not, one school actually refused to explain what the difference was between EE and CE and how it compared to the LAS CS because my son was admitted to engineering and “They all go in undecided”. Another school described the CS program in LAS as inferior to the engineering programs. My son’s CSE program includes the engineering foundations courses and project courses but intense programming classes. I think it probably more closely resembles SE although I’m not sure if recruiters care at all. Jobs seem to say “CS, EE or CE”. I guess find the curriculum (regardless of degree name) that makes you happy!
Great post and so completely true!
Is there any way someone who did EECS at Cal can post high school GPA, test scores, extracurriculars, etc.?
I’m applying there now and really want to get a feeling of the caliber of people they accept into this program.
For me right now:
- 32 ACT (taking it again very soon, hope this will go up to a 35/36)
- 800 Math SAT II
- Will take Physics SAT soon (hopefully will get 750+)
- Using the UC system of calculating unweighted GPA from soph/junior year: 3.9
- average weighted GPA from sophomore year: 4.3
- average weighted GPA from junior year: 4.45
Extracurriculars:
- Speech and Debate Captain
- Senior robotics member for FRC
- VEX robotics Captain
- research club
- stock market club
- competitive computer programming (club)
- college programming courses in C++ and Python at Foothill and UCSC
*some engineering awards - participates in various engineering competitions and hackathons
I absolutely love engineering (EECS) and have had a natural passion for it since 6 (when I started robotics).
^^ basically sums me up
I’d love to know where I stand based on those who have gone or are attending EECS at this fine university.
Thank you!
Use the search function and find previous thread from UCB and go through the acceptance thread
for previous years.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/1756889-uc-berkeley-class-of-2019-decision-stats-only.html
Thank you for this resource! However, it did contain only 4-5 examples of acceptance. I am a male, and of those acceptances, only 3 were male (I know that female acceptance into EECS are much greater, in order to preserve gender ratio).
Is there any way those who attended could still post their high school stats, so I can have a reference beyond 3 data points?
Thank you again!
You are asking the wrong forum. Even the statistics of UCB doesn’t record ECs and stuff. Go through previous years for more sampling. Either that or post on the UCB forum. In fact, do a search on it.
This info may help you.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17249805/#Comment_17249805
Finally looked through all of these sites. Thank you so much for the info!
Could anyone still be able to possibly evaluate my chances of EECS admissions, based on the stats I have posted above? That would really be helpful in giving me a sense of where I stand.
Thanks again!
Last year, male Asian with 2340 and 35 ACT with 3.95 UW was rejected for EECS, he was OOS. I think your chances are low to medium.