EECS: Which schools should I consider?

[ucbalumnus]

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@TheGoodBook

My only worry about UT-Austin is that the top 7% rule won’t guarantee my admission to Cockrell ECE with Honors. I don’t know how much of a difference Honors would make, but I want to avoid the frat-domination/partying on the campus and go for an academically driven/passionate/entrepreneurial environment if possible. Maybe Plan II offers this same environment, but I’m not sure whether I want to delve much more in the liberal arts.

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<p>UT Austin has a low fraternity and sorority percentage (3.4% in fraternities and 4.9% in sororities, although small percentages of a huge student body can fill up a lot of fraternities and sororities, making them look like a bigger part of the campus than they are.
<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg05_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=788”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg05_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=788&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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@TheGoodBook

That’s good to know. I just have mixed feelings about UT-Austin because of the 7% rule (I’m afraid of the sort of student body that would bring in, since like 100 kids from my school get in every year and most of them I don’t consider my kind of crowd).

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<p>Please lose the school-elitist attitude. If you work at a Silicon Valley computer company, you will work alongside graduates of non-elite schools like non-flagship state schools (e.g. UC not-Berkeley, CSU various), state flagships that do not have an elite-for-a-state-flagship reputation (e.g. Alabama, Hawaii, Oregon, Arizona [State], Colorado, etc.), and perhaps a few non-college-graduates who self-educated CS.</p>