<p>How many apply? How many get accepted? How many enroll?</p>
<p>From what I roughly recall on Cal Day...</p>
<p>Approximately 2200 apply and 300 get accepted. That's a 15% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>The enrollment rate is quite high, though I'm not exactly sure.</p>
<p>Are you going to Berkeley in EECS this year? If so, look forward to seeing you there!</p>
<p>Excelblue is right. I heard 14.1% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I'm going to Berkeley EECS! :D</p>
<p>The popularity of the EECS major has been declining in recent years.</p>
<p>As of last year, the L&S CS major was no longer impacted.</p>
<p>In 2001, there were 3316 applicants. The acceptance rate to EECS was 11%. 261 enrolled, equivalent to 70.1% yield. Incoming students were told they were more selective than ivy, and the yield was better than almost all ivy that year. It's sad that Berkeley EECS isn't what it once was. At the time, you tell anyone you're in EECS, even within Berkeley, it's enough to wow a lot of people.</p>
<p>Does anybody have links to these stats?</p>
<p>I don't think it's an actual decline in the EECS department, but rather just a loss of the "hotness" that tends to go into certain fields at certain times. The people who apply to EECS these days tend to consist of more of those who are genuinely interested instead of those who are just looking for something that'd make the most money.</p>
<p>I've heard that the admissions rate was once as low as 7% in EECS.</p>
<p>No link, but the year I quote, they sent an actual brochure home and my family still has it.</p>
<p>Pre 2000/2001 bubble, it was lower than 10%. Not sure how much lower.</p>
<p>But still most of the people who apply are only from California, while for Ivys, people are competing from all over the world for those spots. Having merely low acceptance rate doesn't said its harder to get in (is it harder to be top 300 in the state or top 1500 in the country/world). The high enrollment rate is because only small proportion of those who also got into Ivys or Stanford, MIT or Caltech aren't going. And, because UC's are a lot more affordable, unless the university is a lot better, people would still go to Berkeley. Ivy's are sort of competing with each other for the accepted student, thus lower enrollment rate. A student accepted to a top Ivy is also pretty likely to get into other Ivys.<br>
How I know? My high school supplies at least 10 out of those 300 students.</p>
<p>Not going, but still Yay! I got in!
I was looking for these stats. It's pretty awesome that 100% of the people from my robotics club who applied in the last 4 year for EECS got in.</p>
<p>Have fun at Cal!
I'll be suffering with psets on the east coast.</p>
<p>^ This is EECS. Why would a prospective EECS student apply for ivy? I know quite a few students 1500+/1600 did not bother applying out of states or to any ivy. Are they any weaker than ivy students? I seriously doubt it.
Besides, the starting salary for EECS/CS at Berkeley is a lot higher than ivy engineering.</p>
<p>^^Yess!!!!</p>
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<p>Uh, I think the answer is quite obvious why: they don't know if they will get into Berkeley EECS. Those students who you refer to who didn't apply OOS are either extremely confident or are foolhardy, probably the latter. Somebody who applies to Berkeley EECS and doesn't get in might still have gotten into, say, Cornell, whose engineering programs are pretty darn good, in fact, better than UCLA's engineering programs which I would presume would be the backup option. But you would never even have the option of going to Cornell if you don't even apply.</p>
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<p>I would further question what is meant by the word 'prospective' anyway. Let's face it. Most 17-18 year olds don't really know what they want to major in, and they certainly don't know what they want to do for a career. Just because you're a 'prospective' EECS student doesn't mean that you're actually going to major in EECS. Once you get to college, you may well find something else more interesting and decide to major in that. Most students at any school will shop around and change majors. </p>
<p>Heck, even if you do indeed major in EECS, that doesn't mean that you're actually going to work in EECS as a career. As a case in point, about 25% of EECS students at MIT end up taking jobs not in engineering, but in management consulting or investment banking. Another large chunk went to graduate school, and some of them will also end up in non-engineering jobs afterwards. For example, I know a guy who is finishing his PhD in EECS at MIT and will then take a job at McKinsey (the world's top management consulting firm). Heck, your career can be even more eclectic than that. One of my former roommates majored in EECS at Cal and then later became a real estate salesman. </p>
<p>The point is, nobody actually knows for sure what they are going to end up doing with their lives. Just because you think you might want to major in something now doesn't mean that you won't want to change majors later, and even if you do major in that thing, that doesn't mean that you will end up pursuing it as a career.</p>
<p>Does Cornell ECE or UCB EECS have higher starting salary usually?</p>
<p>Here's something from the career center for BS in EECS</p>
<p>Career</a> Center - What Can I Do With a Major In...?</p>
<p>In 2006
Year Reported 75th Percentile Average 25th Percentile Median
2006 77 $75,000 $67,570 $57,000 $66,000</p>
<p>Here's something from Stanford</p>
<p>Career</a> Development Center | Student Services</p>
<p>Here's something from Cornell. Not specifically ECE, but that's the closest.</p>
<p>Until recently, no 17-18 kids think that they'll go into banking after finishing up EECS. Just that opportunities come a-calling, and they couldn't refuse the offer. You do not go into EECS thinking you might become an ibanker.</p>