<p>I was just wondering. It says that not all applicants are admitted to Computer Science. Now, what does that mean specifically? How many of those applicants are admitted? How difficult is it to get into CS? What will happen if I do not get in?</p>
<p>I assume you're talking about pure CS (at L&S) not EECS, right?</p>
<p>Since (EE)CS at Berkeley is one of the nation's best CS programs it's highly competitive. I can't find the exact numbers for CS right now, but in general only 11% of international freshman are admitted to Cal and probably even less to (EE)CS.</p>
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Well, I hope Cal is not the only school you're applying to...</p>
<p>How about you post your stats so we evaluate your chances? Or just send me a PM, maybe I can judge your stats a bit better since I'm from Germany too.</p>
<p>Wait a minute, maybe I misunderstood something. When I am applying to Berkeley, do I already have to declare my major (CS or EECS)? That is, will I be admitted to a certain major or to UC Berkeley in general? If the former, everything is ok. I know what I am up to. I thought, however, that the latter is the case and that UC Berkeley will admit (or not) me to CS/EECS after my first year. That <em>would</em> be a problem.
Maybe someone can clarify a bit.</p>
<p>About my person:
I am from Germany (and so are you, I saw - nice!). I completed the German Abitur with the highest possible mark (1.0) and I simultaneously received the IB diploma (41 points). I am into math and computer science. I wrote an own (small and incomplete) operating system at the age of 11 and attended a math camp at Stanford a year ago. I also did some research at Max-Planck-Institute of Mathematics and a two months internship at a Fraunhofer Institute. I am currently participating in the Federal Math Competition. I have also been playing the piano for 13 years now. I am doing SAT soon and I got 800 on both MathIIC and Physics.</p>
<p>I think that I am competitive; however, I know how crazy difficult it is to get admitted as an international applicant. Anyway, my actual question referred to the problem about CS/EECS.</p>
<p>Edit: do those problems about getting admitted to one's major only apply to pure CS, or also to EECS?</p>
<p>It depends on if you're interested in CS (L&S) or EECS.
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Students interested in this major should apply directly to the EECS major on the UC Berkeley Application for Admission. Admitted freshman and spend all four years in the EECS major.</p>
<p>Freshmen applicants may also consider applying to the College of Engineering undeclared. This path allows engineering undeclared students who maintain a minimum of 2.0 GPA easy transfer at the junior year to any College of Engineering major.
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Freshman applicants interested in the Computer Science major should apply to the College of Letters and Science undeclared.
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<p>However, with your stats I think you're easily in.</p>
<p>CS is arguably easier than EECS, but the downside is that you have to apply. I'd definitely consider EE material to be harder than CS material, and EECS majors also have to take two semesters of physics, which can be really damaging to the GPA. (EECS majors take everything CS majors take.) So keep that in mind also.</p>
<p>You jump off Evans Hall and plunge 10 or so stories to your death.</p>
<p>No, jumping off Campanile is way better, you have a nicer view as you fall down to your death.</p>
<p>you could try drowning yourself in the fountain at sproul...little shallow though</p>
<p>No better place is to faceplant into Memorial Pool, so you will also be remembered.</p>