<p>So UCLA decision comes in 2 days. I already got into UCSD EE and I'm wondering which EE department is better/harder/better to get a job out of.</p>
<p>Also for UCLA at the time i applied for Computer Engineering. How hard would it be to switch into electrical? Will that also screw me in the sense that i would be behind in my major?</p>
<p>plz and ty.</p>
<p>*note im most likely going to attend grad school as well</p>
<p>I also applied for EE and got accepted at UCSD and am wondering the same thing…from what I can find UCLA is generally ranked higher, but it’s tough to know whether the rankings really mean much. </p>
<p>U.S. News actually ranked UCLA’s EE as #8 in the world!
[World’s</a> Best Universities in Electrical Engineering; Top Electrical Engineering Schools | US News](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-electrical-engineering]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-electrical-engineering)</p>
<p>on a similar note, how does Cal Poly SLO compare with these schools?</p>
<p>Horrid news articles and rumors about CA community colleges and Cal State schools about kids unable to graduate in six years due to not being able to get classes: full. How bad is this at UCSD - son admitted, awaiting UCBerkeley decision. Hoping CA protects the crown of it’s system by having enough teachers and classes for one to graduate in four years if one desires. Able to go here, U Nevada Reno, geothermal energy, alternate energy and oil/gas: can compete with Stanford and Cornell and much easier to access political connections here than UCSD or Cal and 5 top energy companies in geothermal here, so thinking to just knock off ugrad here, stay in town: upside is graduate at age 20 in two years cause core breadth here complete - did it dual credit high school and the scholarships means my Dad’s gift, 100% GIBill pays big bucks for grad school. But used this school, unr for high school so want to leave for ugrad, make all those new dorm friends with different backgrounds who’ve come from far and wide. The straw to break the back of a yes, would be that UCSD and CAL are as bad as CA’s other schools in terms of getting a needed class to graduate…P.S. did also apply to UCLA and wasn’t tapped: only CAL and UCSD and admitted to UCSD as so many of you are.</p>
<p>Cal Poly has one of the best EE programs in California when it comes to hands on design. But if you like to study theories and all those interesting Math, Berkeley is the place to be. Stanford’s undergrad EE program, IMHO, is rather useless. The only redeemable value is that those got into Stanford undergrad EE programs are very smart kids to start with. So they usually find their way out. I have seen quite a few undergrads from Stanford who can’t even solder a chip on to a circuit board. Stanford’s grad/PHD program, however, is pretty good.</p>
<p>I believe that EE at UCLA has a CS path. Besides, most of the lower division overlaps between EE and CS.</p>
<p>I work up in the Bay Area, and have a hard time believing any hiring manager in Silicon Valley would differentiate between an undergraduate EE/CE/CS from UCLA or UCSD. Degrees from either school would be viewed favorably.</p>
<p>CAL poly SLO graduation rate in four years is 24% as of latest available stats in 2010.
where as CAL is 69%, UCLA is 68% and UCSD is 59%. We’re paying out of state, gotta finish in four. California is leaving their state college kids stranded without the courses available needed to graduate. And SLO is the crown jewel of CAL STATES. be glad you’re good enough toavoid them.</p>
<p>UCSD is top five for biochem, #15 internationally Econ. don’t know about engineering other than CAL is often top 3 or 1 nationally.</p>
<p>Son in UCSD, UCLA and UCBerkeley. We’re kinda SF Berkeley leftist anyway, immigrating from SFBay to Reno, NV , so it’s familiar. where as UCLA feels overwhelming foreign and busy. UCSD offer came first, and i almost wish it was theonly one. it seems so sane and fantastic down there in LaJolla.</p>
<p>i do wonderhow my son - born in Honolulu, surfer -would surf/get his board to the beach since he’ll only have a bicycle. thought it was as close to the beach as UCSB, but no. And he’s in Revelle if he goes: mathyEcon.</p>
<p>anyone know how they get themselves and their boards and wetsuits to the beach without a car?</p>
<p>Oh, just read my prior post about being ‘tapped by UCLA’. It’s true. right away UCBerkeley and UCSD in Jan gave usernames and app #'s but never heard a word from UCLA, until a few days after acceptance to UCSD and three days before acceptance to UCB. he’s in at all three. And UCLA has a fantastic supportive NV alumi association.</p>
<p>@ corneliasusie: My son is at Revelle and takes his surfboard on a bus to get to the beach. :)</p>
<p>Oh, more facts about Cal State U’s. we live here in Reno, NV and my son’s taken classes at UNR dual credit for the past three years. He’s been admitted to their Honors Program and will gain access to their brandnew dorms LLC (very, very nice!), and his 50 college credits are transferable without question. he’ could potentially finish a materials engineering degree by age 20, and a minor in renewable Energy. and hope for the best for grad school or work. I want him to stay here,but he won’t listen to me.</p>
<p>While on campus lately I’ve spied a number of parents with kids, who are coming from California to go this school , fearing what they know: impossible to graduate or get desired classes at Cal state anything, Sacto, SF, SD, Sonoma. In fact, I stopped one tour and asked them mom about why NV over CA. The daughter piped up that she’d go to UCLA over NV if that an option, which i gathered her option is only CalState schools. The Mom said with the reciprocal tuition advantage that NV shares with CA it’s a no-brainer. (fyi, CA doesn’t allow reciprocity for UC’s only CalStates). This Mom told me her oldest son is now in his sixth year at Sonoma State and cannot graduate, cannot get the classes he needs to do so AND has petitioned the president or chancelor or someone in admin to waive the requirement since it’s impossible to get these last two classes so he can be a graduate. she said it’s been a nightmare for all these years and they will gladlypay the little more for UNR. UNR is gorgeous. And I wonder if it’s worth the stress my son will endure with those smart kids and pressure cooker of CAL, when he can stay here and be top-dog, or at least one of them.</p>
<p>You wouldn’t believe the counseling the Honors kids get here !!! wow. there were more PhD advisors in the room than kids that first day. Unreal support.Don’t know about the requirements for Honors at CAL, but I know my son can’t do it at UCSD: his gpa is only 3.82 unweighted and needed to be 3.9, otherwise scores O.K. UNR gives priority registration to their Honors kids. My son can now as of April 1 claim his frosh classes (frosh with advanced standign but all Honors frosh are able to do this) where as at UCSD no priority reg for honors kids.</p>
<p>There is a difference in the curriculum thats for sure. My son’s in multivariable differential calculus - considered 3rd semester calc here as well as at CAL. His stanford high courses he dropped inthis are more so: tons of proof work. UNR does this mvcalc and then his next would be a 3-credit DiffEq and then a 3-credit Linear Algebra.: potentially all year or two classes for 6 credits in one semester or spread out into two semesters. NOT Berkeley: both classes are given in one 4-credit class: Math 54 combo’s Linear Algebra and DiffeQ(their 53 is the multivariable). Told my son to put on his seatbelt to be at CAL, cause it makes UNR look like paddycake. And my son’s interested in Econmath/business which he cannot do at UNR: just look at their program to know why in comparison to UCLA UCSD CAL.</p>
<p>The happiness quotient: I vote for UNR and for his ability to succeed and excel. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, they say. If he studies what UNRis renowned which is not Econ and business and gets into their big engineering programs/ materials , renewable E and geothermal, energy sources of the future, research, the skies the limit at UNR. Sadly he wants to ‘go away’. i still vote for UNR. you should see this beautiful campus nestled at the base of Tahoe ski resorts. well, not my decision. but if any of you have CA kids who cannot get into UC, think abouthe reciprocity states, not only Nevada, but also Hawaii, OR, IDaho, Utah, AZ.</p>
<p>coqimom - tell me all about Revelle (oldest dorms at SD) that my sons’ in too. what’s your son’s major? is he happy.? I wager my son will be happier at UCSD than CAL. Just readingabout too many suicidal , psychatric admissions at CAL. OMG. SanDiego, LaJolla. It’s like being at the candy store…always better off with limited choices. all was good when it was only UCSD. And ilove their support staff I’ve written about so much. Their VA guy got right back and every one else. not so at cal. and shoot, the CAL thing superceded going to Triton Day today - we both got some sneezy sniffly cold precluding the trip. Be nice if he could have gone to all visits.</p>
<p>what year is your son? And another thing i like about ucsd is housing is guaranteed all four, not so at CAL, only two. not too late to change. My son, as long as he’s leaving NV would be up for UCSD or CAL or UCLA…actually he hears the girls are hotter at UCLA. Not the reason I’d choose a school but I’m not an 18 year old young man.</p>
<p>please write me, message me. i want to hear all about your son at UCSD.</p>
<p>Sent you a p.m… but basically, his only complaint is that there really isn’t a walkable “college town” (he has no car) … otherwise he loves UCSD. Yes, his freshman dorm was kind of old… but hey, it’s a right of passage! Now he’s in the GORGEOUS new on-campus Revelle student apartments. Good luck! :)</p>