How many people applied to EECS for Berkeley?

EmpathyInAnarchy
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:47:19 +0000

^ I think you look pretty good. Your GPA is strong, but amongst those posting on this forum it’s common. Not having any EC’s might work against you, but it isn’t a deal breaker either.

You’ve taken EE20 and EE40? I’m pretty sure most CCC’s don’t offer articulating classes for those.

With your GPA, and based on the scant info you’ve given, I give you a 70% shot. But most of us posting on here have the same odds too. What’s going to matter is whether you’ve distinguished yourself from all the other 4.0’s in a relevant way. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to care about IGETC.

If I were you, with IGETC completed, I would have applied for CS in L&S. But I think you want to pursue EE so that obviously isn’t the right thing for you.

Personally: I work, have taken 6 programming classes (C, C++, data structures, Java, unix shell programming, assembly language programming), and have a robotics EC along with an engineering summer camp EC. My essays are pretty solid as well. I hope that’s distinguished me.

But who knows what the applicant pool looks like. We all might be a huge cut above. GPA and prereqs are king – you’ve got them.