Ouch. I’m not worried about clearing that bar, as a sophomore I knew enough to finish a few problem sets for my Cal friend. I’m just using that cutoff to generalize the cutthroat atmosphere of CS at Cal - if half the CS students (who are all geniuses) can’t make an A, what are the rest of the classes going to be like? What’s my free time going to look like? My sleep? My sanity?
CS 61A, 61B, and 70 are explicitly not graded on a curve, so you are not competing with other students, and there is no reason to try to cutthroat other students.
https://cs61a.org/articles/about.html#grading
https://sp19.datastructur.es/about.html#grades
https://www.eecs70.org/policies/
Lol, their point recovery policy is written as a Python function. Guess that about sums up Cal CS.
So thank you, @ucbalumnus! I’m feeling a lot better about going to Berkeley if I’m lucky enough to have it as an option.
Stanford for CS, hands down!
I got into Stanford! I’ll revisit this thread and think about it a bit before committing to either Princeton or Stanford.
@ucbalumnus
700 students for Stanford’s CS106a??? Wow. I was an undergrad there and took and later TA’d for that class and it was small back then, maybe 30 students? Much bigger though than my LISP classes which were just a few of us at the graduate level. Symbolic’s 3600’s anyone?
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Stanford CS 106A enrollment broke 700 back in 2012, and CS as a major has only gotten more popular (in general, not necessarily specifically at Stanford) since then.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/10/04/cs106a-enrollment-reaches-record-high/