<p>Prestige :D</p>
<p>^ you mean bragging rights?..no one will really care. I think it’s more impressive you spend that time doing research during the school year, summer research at a NASA center or a national lab or a prestigious university, and publishing some research papers. All while getting >3.8 GPA. That’s more impressive IMO. But to each his own. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Can’t I do both? Learn to multitask lol.</p>
<p>The problem is not multitasking and focusing, it is the amount of content you will have to process as well as the amount of work you will have to complete – on time. Either you will spend extra amounts of years being an undergraduate, or you will have to take 5+ courses per quarter. You will have to make compromises in your social life or your grades if you make this choice, unless you are a genius.</p>
<p>What is your motivation anyways for that double major?</p>
<p>i’m a MAE major, with no background in CS and no intention of doing any CS related careers. i know we all have to take CS31 and it is a real time hog. i’d like to take it at CC next summer and transfer it over (already checked at assist.org), but i’d like to know how much of CS31 will I apply/need for MAE107L, MAE131A, MAE162A, which list CS31 as pre-req? i don’t want to jam myself up later if CC course won’t prepare me for later courses.</p>
<p>^ from what i’ve heard, CS 31 is overkill for MAE. Hell, even CS 32 is overkill for EE if you’re not doing the computer engineering option. You could always take it at a CC or a CSU over the summer and transfer it.</p>
<p>Who chooses the commencement speaker?</p>
<p>I have a quick question. How simple is it to change your major in the L&S College to the Henry Engineer college at orientation? I’ve been looking around and can’t pinpoint the exact process for this.</p>
<p>I’ve read that you may have to re-apply or something along those lines.</p>
<p>^
lol. henry engineer college.</p>
<p>i was in the same situation. you can’t do that switch during orientation. when school starts, get a petition form and turn it in (also requires like an essay explaining why). if your high school grades are good enough, you’ll get approved within a couple weeks. if they’re alright, they’ll wait for your fall grades then give you the decision a couple weeks into winter quarter</p>
<p>I have a question for you guys. Does anyone know what kinds of schools that graduating engineering students get into? Obviously since the avg gpa is around a 3.0 how realistic is it to get into Cornell, Stanford, and etc… more specifically for mechanical engineers.</p>
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<p>I believe only ~3 students at most get admitted to MIT, Stanford, CIT for graduate school, after obtaining the B.S at UCLA.</p>
<p>It is achievable if you have a high GPA, do work in a research group, participate in some leadership positions, and most importantly have stellar references.</p>
<p>Although the average GPA is about slightly lower than a 3.0, there are many who have > 3.8.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, only students who had a 3.9 or higher were accepted to MIT. For Stanford, a highly involved and scholarly individual was admitted (>3.9GPA and involved in many every engineering club)</p>
<p>hi. i’m new to CC and will be coming to UCLA this fall as a computer science and engineering major. i have a few questions. i would be very thankful if you could answer these for me. thanks.</p>
<p>*what is the salary range for UCLA CSE graduates? what is the average salary?</p>
<p>*what kind of grad schools do UCLA CSE majors get into. please don’t just say good schools. i would appreciate if someone could provide details (x to A school- or majority to this school- or a 20 went to harvard…"</p>
<p>*what companies do CSE grads usually work for? (the best as well as the average)</p>
<p>*do undergraduates have research opportunities?</p>
<p>*what are some major related student groups i can join?</p>
<p>*is UCLA CSE well-respected in the east?</p>
<p>*does a UCLA CSE degree hold prestige?</p>
<p>*what classes should i take as a freshman? first quarter without any credit.</p>
<p>*is it possible to double major in CSE and math/econ or math or business eco and graduate in 4 yrs?</p>
<p>*do top companies (like sun, cisco, amazon, apple) hire UCLA CSE students as interns and then- as employees?</p>
<p>i know this is a long list- but plz plz plz plz answer them as much as you can. thxxxx.</p>
<p>^ most of those questions have been answered in this thread so you can try searching around…</p>
<p>but i’ll be more helpful and provide answers later if no one else already has. first day of summer :D</p>
<p>I’ll answer the 1st 3 questions about myself. I graduated from UCLA as CSE major roughly 2 years ago:</p>
<p>*what is the salary range for UCLA CSE graduates? what is the average salary?
I don’t know about the average salary, but I currently make around $65,000 a year, but I’m working part time. The nation’s average for part time jobs is $50,000, so I’m making above the average, plus I get some very good benefits.</p>
<p>*what kind of grad schools do UCLA CSE majors get into. please don’t just say good schools. i would appreciate if someone could provide details (x to A school- or majority to this school- or a 20 went to harvard…"
It really depends on your GPA, ECs, and selection of courses. I got into UC Berkeley, UCSD, Carnegie Mellon and GeorgiaTech; I ended up choosing Berkeley for grad.</p>
<p>*what companies do CSE grads usually work for? (the best as well as the average)
A variety of companies. I currently work as a software engineer for Apple in Cupertino, CA. But I know classmates who currently work for Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, and Intel. Please remember that we all got good GPA (my GPA was around a 3.85, and I got a lot of work/internship experiences before).</p>
<p>Is that 65,000 full-time salary and you decided to do part-time (ie you do not get paid that much annually but could if you wish to go back to full-time)? If you make that much part time, props to you since that’s the average Chem-E starting full-time salary. </p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.cnbc.com/id/29408064?slide=11[/url]”>http://www.cnbc.com/id/29408064?slide=11</a></p>
<p>Or the better question is, how many hours a week do you work? If you work 39 hours a week and claim yourself part-time, you’re essentially full-time sans the 1 hr/week, sans the FISCAL calculated year of (too lazy to calculate).</p>
<p>And average part-time job pays 18/hr, equating in the neighborhood of an full-time annual salary of 37,000.</p>
<p>Source:
[Employment</a> Situation Summary](<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm]Employment”>Employment Situation Summary - 2023 M13 Results)</p>
<p>Note: I’m not a CSE Major. I’m a ChemE and I graduated last year. This year ChemEs had a hard time finding jobs due to the economy. Read article below. </p>
<p><a href=“Got Work? - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=7636561&page=2</a></p>
<p>Any of you know anything about Stats 100A? They just emailed saying Stats 110A isn’t going to be taught anymore after this summer and that we have to take 100A instead. Is 100A easier or what? This is kind of weird.</p>
<p>@TB54: I work part time as in 32 hrs per week; and this isn’t my ‘starting salary’. I already worked for 3 years now, and before that I did internships at Apple too. The full time salary for my position (Software Engineer) is around $85,000 (remember, this is not starting salary! I already have over 3 years of experiences).
The average full time salary for Apple Software Engineer is around $90,000, so even if I work full time, I’m still earning below average. Keep in mind this is Apple, one of the major tech companies around, so the salary for Apple should be already higher than the nation’s average for the same position. Source: [Apple</a> Salary | Glassdoor.com](<a href=“http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/Apple-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E1138_D_KO6,23.htm]Apple”>http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/Apple-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E1138_D_KO6,23.htm) and [Apple</a> losing engineers due to low salaries? Not so fast](<a href=“http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/18/apple-losing-engineers-due-to-low-salaries-not-so-fast/]Apple”>http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/18/apple-losing-engineers-due-to-low-salaries-not-so-fast/)</p>
<p>Wow, that’s pretty sweet Fasttrack, good friend of mine (UCLA guy) is interning there in the summer as a product manager. I might be across the street at Symantec (interned there last summer). Do you mind letting us know what kind of project team you’re on?</p>
<p>My current assignment is assisting the Apple iLife Engineering Team for Cocoa (which is Apple’s Objective-C based programming environment for Mac OS X) desktop application development and developing shared technologies for iLife. It’s pretty cool, but I’m currently looking into another job at Google which is offering better salary for about the same work.</p>
<p>woo, that’s soo cool! I’m going to enter CSE this fall too, and I was wondering if you have any advice? lol :D</p>