<p>Quite a long read but I thought it was interesting.</p>
<p>BERKELEY'S COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW METHOD FOR MAKING FRESHMAN ADMISSIONS DECISIONS: AN ASSESSMENT</p>
<p>By Michael Hout
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley</p>
<p>they should let the applicants review their own apps, lol</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure the acceptance rate would only increase by a little bit...</p>
<p>"i'm pretty sure the acceptance rate would only increase by a little bit..."</p>
<p>lol. yeaaah.</p>
<p>Anyone know how they determine your 1-5 score that your admission is based on?</p>
<p>Does an admissions person just look through your entire app then assign you a number that's averaged with someone else's? Or is there a "formula" to it?</p>
<p>I've seen this awhile ago. It's a very interesting read.</p>
<p>Makes me feel good about being in the College of Engineering. Yay.</p>
<p>It also confirms that Bioengineering is the hardest major to be admitted into. Double yay...</p>
<p>That's really awesome. Thank you. :D</p>
<p>No your wrong...the hardest major to be admitted to is ChemE and EECS.</p>
<p>"Engineering varies the bar for admission among different majors. Table 8 breaks out the Engineering admission data by read score and major. Bioengineering fills with applicants whose scores were 2.25 or better. Materials Science is near capacity with just 2.25s or better; it took less than half of the applicants who scored 2.5. Few undeclareds get in with scores above 2. Electrical Engineering fills once the 2.75s are admitted. Only Civil, Mechanical, and Nuclear Engineering take significant numbers of 3s."</p>
<p>Look at the graphs, read that particular section. Now whether BioE is probably not the hardest major-still hard-but not as much as ChemE it would seem.</p>
<p>Q. What are the most difficult majors to gain admission in Engineering?
A. EECS, Bioengineering and Engineering Undeclared are very popular and very competitive to gain admission. </p>
<p><a href="http://coe.berkeley.edu/admissions/faq.html%5B/url%5D">http://coe.berkeley.edu/admissions/faq.html</a></p>
<p>Also another fact I noticed is that the chemE acceptance rate for transfer students is pretty high, much higher than all engineering displicines in CoE. Oh all the facts I learn as a calso counselor.......</p>
<p>BioE may be hard but overall, the hardest major to be admitted into in the CoE is EECS....I believe their acceptance rate is 15% (can anyone verify?). </p>
<p>ChemE, on the other hand, being in the College of Chemistry, is able to afford many more admits into the major...however, there is a high dropout rate (i.e. change of major) once students take ChemE 140, ChemE 150A/150B. </p>
<p>And if I'm not mistaken, BioE is ranked 11th in the nation? not that it has anything to do with being hard to get into but that is the lowest ranked in the CoE. I may be mistaken......</p>
<p>ChemE has a relatively high acceptance rate, but as mosharma134 said, a large percentage of the dropouts switch out of ChemE. In terms of course material, I've heard that ChemE is definitely harder than BioE.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for EECS has never been confirmed by any published data, but it has been speculated to be near 15%. But based on that chart, it is easier to get into EECS than it is to get into BioE, MSE, and Engineering Undelcared.</p>
<p>BioE is ranked rather low in the nation, but that is expected to change with the opening of the new Bioengineering building.</p>
<p>Just to give you a relative feel, when I took ChemE 140 (a weeder course), we started out with 120-130 students. After Cheme 140, there were only 90 students that passed the course....140 to me was the equivalent of being on th verge to killing myself (figuratively speaking). I didn't know classes could be soo torture. </p>
<p>And one other thing...ChemE has a higher acceptance rate because alot of students hesitate to apply to ChemE. In fact, I've heard that ChemE is the hardest major offered at CAL...with EECS being next. There's a reason why ChemE doesn't have a lot of undergraduates students in their department and why ChemE is the highest paid profession right out of college. It's because it's damn hard and not that many students take upon the ChemE major.</p>
<p>Does anyone have this kind of information for the transfer admissions process?</p>
<p>No, ChemE has a higher acceptance rate because it is in the College of Chemistry, which does not admit by major, and it is easier to get into the College of Chemistry than it is to get into the College of Engineering.</p>
<p>Very nice report - I wish I saw this before I submitted my app.</p>
<p>Chem E. is definitely one of the hardest majors here.</p>
<p>EECS isn’t necessarily “difficult” so much as aggressively time-consuming. I’ve been led to believe that if you’re willing to put in the hours, you’re ok - as opposed to Chem E., which has at least three chances to utterly rape you simply for not being exceptionally good at things not necessarily relevant to the field, no matter how much time you put in.</p>
<p>I wish there was a more recent one to show how Berkeley weights SAT writing.</p>