<p>I've heard a lot of people say that Berkeley engineering is the hardest major to get into, but how much harder? Is Engineering admissions rate significantly lower than Berkeley's overall admittance rate?</p>
<p>It is indeed tougher than any other College. I don't have the statistics on me, but consider this: Berkeley is rank THREE out of the whole nation for Engineering, beating Caltech, Cornell, Harvard, and others.</p>
<p>Precisely the reason why I applied. =]
Well, I've got pretty good grades, so I guess I'll just hope for the best.</p>
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<p>In US News -- it's ranked second by the NRC, and in other tech rankings (e.g. THES), placed first or second in the world.</p>
<p>I'd say it's a bit harder to get into engineering. Some say that it's like lower Ivy to get into Berkeley's engineering (though there will be those who say, "I know a guy who got in with [insert weak stats]").</p>
<p>^^^^yepp. at times its a lottery. i really do know someone personally who got less than 1900 on sats (math was probably less than 700 at best) okay gpa (3.9ish weighted) and got into mechE. oh and she was rejected from ucsd ***??</p>
<p>UCSD uses a pure point system for admissions mainly based on your UC GPA and your test scores, so with those stats it's not that surprising.</p>