3.9+ in EECS + Haas Double Major

sakky
Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:23:20 +0000

sakky has me laughing out loud
His apparently favorite source for statistics, US News & World Report, has the following to say about Berkeley.

Berkeley is ranked #3 on the list of the Best Undergraduate Business Programs
Best Undergraduate Business Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
(note that it is lead by only one Ivy League)

Berkeley is ranked #2 on the list of the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
(note that only one Ivy League is on the list, at #8)

Berkeley is ranked #9, overall, by High School Counselors Nationwide
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandre…counselor-rank
(note that it is actually ranked #3, except that multiple copies of the same rank cause the counter to keep iterating)

Berkeley is ranked #21, overall, by the US News Methodology
National Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
(except, it is actually ranked #14, but multiple copies of the same rank cause the counter to keep iterating)



Inexxxorable, you have me laughing out loud, for you’ve apparently misunderstood, perhaps deliberately, what I have been saying. What does anything that I have posted on this thread have to do with Berkeley’s USNews rankings?

I’m simply pointing out that it is difficult at Berkeley to earn high grades, such as the 3.9+ in EECS/Haas proposed by the OP, and in particular, to earn the high grades necessary to enter a top grad school - whether at Berkeley or any other top grad school. Engineering is a particularly harsh grader. Who here disputes this?

But fine, inexxxorable, perhaps you do happen to dispute this notion. Fine, then have it your way. Everybody at Berkeley always earns high grades and nobody ever struggles and performs poorly. Is that what you believe? If so, perhaps you’d like to comfort all of the Berkeley students who have just experienced or are about to experience the gauntlet of he weeder courses by telling them that nobody ever receives poor grades. Tell us how that goes.



Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law has constantly been placed at the top with other premier law schools such as Harvard and Yale. With incredibly strong ties with the Silicon Valley, Berkeley Law students can easily find jobs with excellent law firms. Moreover, with the global prestige of a Berkeley Law degree, the entire world becomes the job market.



Sure, but that doesn’t mean much to vast majority of Berkeley undergrads who can’t get into Berkeley Law (or any other top law school for that matter). Every year, the overwhelming majority of Berkeley prelaws who apply to Berkeley Law are rejected. 2009 was one of the best years on record, yet even in that year, over 75% of Berkeley’s applicants to Berkeley Law were rejected. {Heck, a majority of 2009 Berkeley applicants to even a low-tier law school such as the University of San Francisco Law School were rejected.}