UCLA employment statistics (specifically engineering)?

Hootenany
Sat, 28 May 2011 18:32:06 +0000

@arcadefire
You’re right in saying that I ought not choose UCLA over Cal in hopes of an easier time. In reality, I am just looking for any way to justify picking UCLA over Cal, since it is where I would really like to be (weather, surrounding area, atmosphere, girls…). But in the end, I just can’t convince myself that it is the best move. To be honest, I really wish that Cal would have rejected me. But it seems that Cal wins in every quantitative analysis of my options.
And I can’t believe that their employment statistics are nowhere to be found! I’ve been searching and searching, and I am an expert at using Google to find out everything in the universe. Why can’t I find this?!?!

@sentiment

At UCLA, curves usually help and not hurt you. Exams are sufficiently difficult so that a bunch of engineers won’t be coming home with 90s.



It sounds so nice when you put it that way, saying that the curves help you. In my experience, though, that is the worst situation. It usually means that everybody’s grades are so low that they have to curve everything up. Case in point: this past semester, I took a programming class which was graded on a curve which “helped” the students. It sounded like it would be a cakewalk, but it turned out that I only got a 7% on the final. Then, I found that mine was the second highest grade in the class. In reality, having a curve that “helps” the students is just an excuse for professors to give everybody seizure-inducing exams. That way, when everybody gets a 25%, they have total control over the grade distribution. I really hate this testing philosophy, but I suppose that it’s a sort of rite of passage for all engineers.