Well, someone has a great sense of inferiority for being a CC student. Insulting and disrespecting other CC students don’t help you get out of your situation. When you write a PS, be careful not to show your immaturity like that.
@EECSProdigy OK HOLD UP. An anonymous internet forum is no place to belittle others…especially if the person doing so is being completely ignorant.
These ‘mediocre’ students you speak of work just as hard, IF NOT HARDER, than those at 4 year universities. Each and every one of us is faced with a wide spectrum of adversities-- working full time, being a parent/caretaker, dealing with health issues/psychological disorders, etc.
In actuality, individuals that denounce and stigmatize their fellow peers are the TRUE unintelligent ones.
Don’t feed the asshole troll. He just generalizes everyone by his narrow point of view. Really sad and pathetic person.
@sutt123 You can’t say that all of us face adversity, and you can’t say that individuals who denounce their peers are truly unintelligent. @EECSProdigy may indeed be a brilliant prodigy, but (and @fncrane beat me to it), if CC is essentially for mediocre students, he himself must be mediocre.
Still, he isn’t completely incorrect. If we all did well enough in high school to receive full-ride scholarships from top universities, it is very unlikely that we would have attended CC. People don’t get full-ride scholarships to top universities, but reject it to go to CC.
Granted, that doesn’t make us all unintelligent. Many of us (myself included) simply didn’t perform well enough to get into top schools, which made CC our best option.
If you haven’t met a single intelligent person at CC, then take more difficult classes, with more difficult professors.
(still not unconvinced that @EECSProdigy is a troll)
Dude been a lame troll since he started posting.
Wait, that’s censored?! That isn’t even a word that should be censored!
What’s a synonym for an individual who makes controversial remarks just to make people angry?
A t…roll
There we go!
While its true that no one would turn down a full ride from Berkeley to go to a CC I don’t think that under-performing in high school makes us unintelligent like he claims. If we can do this well in CC I am pretty sure we could have done just as well in high school. Personally in high school I was too busy pretending I was smarter than everyone else to do anything but coast.
People grow up and get their priorities straightened out, and I am extremely thankful that CC’s are able to give us second (or third) chances to show that we deserve a spot in a top school.
You guys living in a fantasy if you think CC is difficult… I skipped a grade and I take the most advanced math/sci classes at CC, but thats peanuts compared to the legit EECS students I know at Berkeley. I guarantee you these people would probably look at my math/science tests at CC and laugh their heads off… Still I don’t get how people have anything below a 4.0 especially in the STEM fields. Also, I never claimed I was more intelligent and brillant. I’m just as mediocre as any of you lol… Even if I get a 4.0, hold my current internship, and do engineering clubs, I’d still be mediocre compared to the Berkeley EECS kids… I’m pretty much doing the bare minimum to get in and HOPEFULLY graduate last… Even that is not guaranteed. I know a guy specifically in L/S CS Berkeley doing 26 units this semester and he has a 3.7+ GPA. I guarantee you none of us could even come close to achieving that…
The issue isn’t that community college is “difficult”. People are pissed off that you’re basically calling community college students stupid and unintelligent when you have such a narrow view of other people and are generalizing a gigantic group of people. Shut the fuck up.
You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.
@Evilcow867 I know, and I agree with you. My lowest GPA in high school was a 0.73. I’m glad to be able to have a second chance.
@EECSProdigy A class that I took at Laney, actually, required more work than the class I took at Berkeley. I wrote a 20,000 word final paper for that thing. Amir Sabzevary, wonderful professor if you’re interested. It wasn’t difficult in the same sense as the Berkeley class was difficult - naturally, the Berkeley class was more rigorous - but it required MUCH more work. 5,000 words to write every other week, tons of online lectures/readings, etc.
The English 85 series is fairly difficult as well. It’s not impossible, of course, but it’s difficult. I don’t see the 45 series at Cal being much more difficult (they’re the same thing, just labeled differently). Plenty of English majors go from CC and are well-prepared for Berkeley work.
Yes, EECS is more difficult at Berkeley than it is at CC. Clearly. Of course the CS 61 series is a joke at CC, in comparison to Berkeley. CC is easier than Berkeley. Period. We know this.
Is CC a joke, though? No. Getting a 4.0 requires work. Less work at a CC than at a 4-year, perhaps, but it still requires hard work.
I’ve met brilliant people at CC, honestly. I’ve met Berkeley students who were dull. Going to Berkeley doesn’t make an individual more intelligent than every CC student.
No matter where you go you will find people who slack off because they can. I have seen mediocre students at CC as well as brilliant ones. College is what you make of it. Those people not pushing themselves will usually come to regret it later. But I also know, just like there are brilliant people at private institutes and UCs, there are also people who did great in high school, got in, and bombed it. My husband got accepted out of high school for engineering in schools like cal poly slo and UCs, but he turned them down to support his family. After a couple years I pushed him back into school, I worked harder to support our family financially and he worked hard regularly taking 19+ quarter units and working part time to get to where he is now. I’m very thankful to CCs that give “mediocre” students like my husband and myself the chance to get back into our education when we were unable to before.
@EECSprodigy lol, k. Listen dude, nobody gives a **** about what you’re saying. This thread is for students who are positively getting together and encouraging/helping each other through the admission process. We don’t want your negative energy and incompetence on here.
So good luck with your application process ALONE. We’ll see what happens in April. Let’s just hope that your narcissism and self-confidence don’t get too far up your *** by then. :-h
Thanks for that @themightybicycle
Nevermind
Major updates on ECs and major choices
Political Econ/Env Econ/Econ/Haas
GPA including fall: 3.85 (One NP from a non-prerequisite but retook for A)
HS GPA: 2.1-2.3
Work experience(2011-2014): Amway sales associate, Herbalife sales associate, Insurance banking in the financial sector, Construction worker(group leader), Waiter at a world class hotels(Peninsula&Four Seasons).
EC’s: VP at Student Government, President of Entrepreneurship Club, Co-founder of a Nutrition/Fitness/Meal Customization Start-up Company, Circle K (volunteer club), Founder of an Inter-CC intramural, Director of Communications at Economics Club, Created a program to help local minorities, Organized a college flea market, HPAIR Ambassador, Phi Lambda Sigma officer, HS athletic team leader, HS student activist, Vice-chair of HS student council.
First gen, more than 45 credits of honor courses, honors department, dean’s list
Personal Statement: 9.5/10
After encouragement from a few relatives on getting internships/work from Bulge Brackets, Hass and Econ became a major consideration of mine. I’ll probably go into Law if I choose to apply for poli-econ.
Extra:I also plan to launch my second start-up between winter and spring semester.
Which majors would be safety, normal, and long reaches?
@nerdbomb I think you have a good shot for all majors, with Haas being a slight reach, but still very possible considering your extracurriculars and work experience. PoliEcon safety, Econ normal. I dunno about EE.