Who is coming to CAL for engineering w/ me?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Woo hoo. o my god i got in!!! i can’t believe this! i want to know who else is coming w/ me.</p>

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<p>yay!!!!, engineering is pretty hard stuff, but congrats..........time to brag!!!</p>

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<p>congrats purplechick. i'll be joining you, i'm doin EECS. what have you thought about dorms? take the convenient, quiet north-side or social, partyin south-side?</p>

<p>i'll be traveling real far to berkeley...(i.e. from south bay about a 40 min drive). where are you from?</p>

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<p>where should i go berkeley or carnegie mellon for eecs</p>

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<p>berkeley education is superior to cmu. not to mention reduced price! cmu campus is horrific, pittsburg is one trash of a town. i'd pick Cal and enjoy. </p>

<p>Cal is ranked #1 (tie with MIT) for US News top Electrical Engineering schools.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engsp06_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engsp06_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>um i don't know exactly what dorms i want to be in.well i'm flying to CAL for free through bridges summer program. i live in los angeles btw and then once i see the dorms i will decide where i would want to be.</p>

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<p>Well, skiiingfool101, what you have presented are the graduate rankings. I think that this thread is more about the undergraduate programs, which don't have a whole lot to do with the graduate programs. </p>

<p>Consider this analogy. I think we would all agree that the elite LAC's like Williams, Amherst, and Swarthmore offer strong undergraduate programs, yet none of them have highly ranked graduate programs (for the simple reason that their graduate programs are either nonexistent or quite minor in scope). Similarly places like UCSF and Rockefeller U demonstrate that you can have strong graduate programs without strong undergraduate programs (or barely any undergraduate program at all). These cases therefore demonstrate that undergraduate academic quality and graduate academic quality are not necessarily linked. </p>

<p>When you're an undergrad, you should worry about undergrad quality. When you're a graduate student, then you should worry about graduate school quality.</p>

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<p>thats not 100% ture sakky, for undergrad, we're actually better than MIT....</p>