I was accepted to Berkeley as a regents scholar and will be paying 16k whereas at JHU I’ll be paying 25k. I’m pretty dead set on EECS and everything seems to point towards Cal at this point.
Should I even consider JHU? I’m planning on visiting but is the program there is even comparable?
Cal.
Go visit.
Tons of jhu students come from cali who have gotten into cal because they think the value is worth it. If it is a lot cheaper to go to cal, i would choose cal. But it doesnt appear to be the case in your situation
Personally, I would choose to go to JHU because I want to major in biomedical engineering. But for electrical engineering, I would have to say that Berkeley is the better choice because they are the better school for electrical engineering. And it looks like Berkeley is cheaper than JHU in your case so I recommend Berkeley. However, no matter what the major is, it all comes down to whether you actually fit into the college. Visit both colleges and imagine yourself going there. Do you feel that you “belong” there? If you don’t feel that way, then it probably isn’t your college. Berkeley might be one of world’s prestigious colleges, but if you don’t fit in there, it won’t be worth the 16k that you will be spending.
First off, it’s an honor to get onto the EECS program at Berkeley, so congratulations. With about 5% admit rate, you must be extremely talented. You’d be crazy to go elsewhere (bar Stanford, MIT, and to some extent, Caltech) if you’ve been accepted to Berkeley EECS and it is the program that you really want for a lower cost. Berkeley is arguably number one for EECS.
Well, likewise. Almost everyone at EECS has turned some Ivies and or top privates even with the same cost or for higher cost. EECS at Berkeley is arguably number one. JHU is good, too, but nothing comparable to Berkeley specially for EECS. I’d take JHU for premed though, if it would come out cheaper. But for engineering, CS, Business, economics, humanities, social sciences, and most especially, EECS, Berkeley would be the better choice.
@ababon wow I never really heard a spin like that, is that really the common perception of Berkeley EECS? At my school (not very competitive public southern California) about 20 people get into Berkeley each year so I never thought it to be that prestigious. I know engineering is hard to get in overall but 5%? And I was rejected from MIT, Stanford, Caltech so there’s that…
@PerfunctoryPeter. I have no ties to Berkeley…but, in the world of EECS Berkeley is on the same playing field as Stanford, MIT, Caltech (even if it is a public institution). I would say many of the brightest kids who want to study EECS would choose Berkeley over many of the expensive “private” schools out east. Don’t confuse some of your classmates in California who also get into Berkeley for other majors and depts that are less selective than their very selective EECS program. I bet very few (if not one) of your classmates got into their EECS program.
Admissions could be unpredictable sometimes. Plenty of EECS students have been accepted to some fantastic schools. Berkeley had an admit rate of 14.1% for Fall rate, and 17% including Spring admits.
The CoE had only 9.8%. EECS had 6%. This year, I heard it was even lower, 5%. It usually will be announced during the open day.
EECS and CS at L&S at Berkeley, together with Haas, are what I call, Berkeley’s foremost undergrad programs. Those programs turn down plenty of students that are Ivy materials.
Easy one…UCB all the way for EECS. Good luck !
Here are some students that Berkeley EECS rejected.
These students would easily get into a school like JHU, had they all applied there.
MIT, Stanford and Berkeley are the “Big Three” of EECS. Johns Hopkins is a fine school in many fields, but doesn’t match up well with the Big Three when it comes to EECS.
Berkeley vs. Johns Hopkins = Berkeley for the win. Not really debatable.
UCB