UC Berkeley vs UCSD for CS

drax12
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:18:51 +0000

UCBChemE and I are just joking. He knows UCLA is just as competitive as Cal is, as we’ve had this conversation before. He says quite often that people think of Cal as the bogeyman and out to kill gpas, but UCLA is as competitive and tough which he concedes; plus I would note that UCLA is on the quarter system, similar to SD, and therefore has highly accelerated terms.

I would be interested in what the average student’s gpa would be from EE and CS at Cal at the point of his graduation… As I noted before, and for which is universal within all the UC’s, an average student’s gpa will climb from the end of his frosh year, to the end of his junior year, and dip back a bit during his senior year.

The average gpa for a grad at Cal, back in 2009 the last year of statfinder was ~ 3.35. Engineers would undoubtedly have lower grades than the overall average, but how much? I don’t think it’d be below 3.0, despite what your link would seemingly project. I would probably guess it to be ~ 3.1 or so, because I couldn’t see, say, a .50 difference in gpa from EECS and the overall, as a differential like this would cause an uproar by E grads, which I’m sure happens from time to time anyway. There are always adjustments up and down throughout time in grading procedures in various departments, some seen as correcting from things that have reached in- or deflationary status. Maybe overall averages would be higher for E grads, and lower in E courses from them at Cal, which could average to maybe ~ 3.1 overall. This is all of course very subjective on my part.