Does grade deflation really exist at Berkeley?

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>At the EECS ugrad town hall, discussion turned from classes to research, and one of the professors flat out said “No matter what your grades are, you will not get into Stanford, MIT, or Berkeley for EE/CS if you have done no research. I’ve rejected a 4.0 from Caltech who just took classes and never did research.”</p>

<p>Now take this however you want, but it is pretty clear that research experience is necessary at least in EE/CS. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf&lt;/a&gt; confirms this. You can go to the part about admissions and read it yourself.</p>