<p>I applied for EECS at Cal, and I was sure I would get rejected, but today I found out I got in as a Spring admit. On the admissions page, I see that there is no indication that I got into EECS, only into CoE. Does this mean I only got into the college, and not my major? Also, around how many spring admits are there, and how fast does the Fall Program fill up? I really want to go to UCLA for EE, but the Cal EECS prestige just tempts me to no end...</p>
<p>Nobody gets admitted to a major, no matter what school within UC Berkeley. If you got into CoE then you will be able to pursue an EECS degree when you begin college, and if you decide it's what you really want your major to be, then you can declare your major after fulfilling whatever prerequisites the major has.</p>
<p>So that means that it is just as hard to get into Mechanical Engineering as EECS in Cal?</p>
<p>It looks like you got into EECS, but since it's in the College of Engineering it tells you that you got into the College of Engineering. Congratulations! EECS is probably the hardest major to get into at Berkeley. If you want to do EE I would definitely take Berkeley over UCLA.</p>
<p>Thanks, but it looks like I'm choosing UCLA over Cal, only because I hate computer science. I can't stand the thought of taking 10 hard computer science courses. Why doesn't Cal have an EE major???</p>
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Nobody gets admitted to a major, no matter what school within UC Berkeley. If you got into CoE then you will be able to pursue an EECS degree when you begin college, and if you decide it's what you really want your major to be, then you can declare your major after fulfilling whatever prerequisites the major has.
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<p>sweetdreams87, you are very wrong on this. For the College of Engineering, students are admitted by major. You are in the major for the one you applied unless otherwise stated on the acceptance letter. please please please be careful when answering these types of questions.</p>
<p>no hard feelings :)</p>
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Thanks, but it looks like I'm choosing UCLA over Cal, only because I hate computer science. I can't stand the thought of taking 10 hard computer science courses. Why doesn't Cal have an EE major???
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<p>Well, within EECS there are different "focuses" so you can focus on EE or CS. If you focus on EE then I don't think you'll have to take very many CS classes at all.</p>