Admission to PhD EECS/EE at Berkeley/Stan/MIT for Fall 2011

GShine_1989
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:37:30 +0000

I am planning on getting them from the faculty in whose courses I have aced and also from PhD level scientists/colleagues where I interned.

This alone would kill your chances. Industry letters and “did well in class” letters are meant to be fillers - i.e. you need 3 and most people typically only have one or two research advisors. They can’t credibly be the mainstay. Don’t believe me? Scroll down to the recommendations section (3.5). This professor has worked on the committees of MIT EECS, Berkeley EECS, and CMU CS (which is elite in CS as I’m sure you know).