This is an interesting comment:
Hereâs a guy who helped make the Berkeley Law schoolâs admission policy openly saying how they tweaked the policy to avoid lawsuit but also to achieve the same diversity goal. Affirmative action was banned at UC systemwide back in 1996.
Long read.
Technically 2023 stat.
2.3% acceptance rate for 2023-2024 freshman CS applicants at Berkeley.
Easier to get into Harvard and Stanford than Berkeley CS.
4.0% for EECS. So CS has lower acceptance rate than EECS. Did not know that.
28.5% acceptance rate for Applied Math. 34% for Math.
10% for Data Science.
It was first time direct admission to CS within L&S in 2022-2023. CS professors got fed up with too many students in CS weed-out classes and decided to go for DA. However, the number of students they accepted dropped a lot from the number of students they accepted within LS in previous years. Thatâs weird.
Anyway, I guess LS CS will go through some transient period and then settle.
What is L&S?
Letters and Science , their school for certain majors
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L&S is Letters and Science and corresponds to Arts and Science in other schools.
It is the biggest college in UCB like A&S in other schools.
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CS and DS will have their own college in Berkeley soon. Donât know the timeline. The sharp drop in L&S CS admittance is surprising. EECS admittance also dropped but not to such an extent.
Berkeley should increase enrollment into their CS programs. They are doing the opposite. Not good very bad.
Shoot, they canât even find a new conference home!!!
Get rid of the football stadium. Covert it into CS lecture halls. Hire 100 extra professors. Crank out those CS grads damn it!
Come on, Fearless Leader⌠college is about learning and having some fun. You obviously did not go to a fun collegeâŚ
âHire 100 extra professorsâ
=> This would be super challenging. BS/BA degree is sufficient to get high paying job in CS. Only a small number of people want to pursue PhD. Then, those small number of people wonât be satisfied with the salary for UCB associate professor for the next 7 hard years to become a tenure. There is a reason why colleges are limiting CS majors.
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Itâs (mostly) a matter of money. If Berkeley pays 500K a piece I am quite certain it will attract a huge number of great applicants. The Berkeley brand and the freedom to work on any problems is a huge draw. They just donât pay very well.
100 x 500K is just 50M a year. But look at how much good it will do to our economy. In contrast just SF alone spends almost 1B a year on their homeless program that didnât do much at all. Itâs just a matter of priority.
The bears suck at football. Letâs face it. If kids want to have fun they should head down to USC.
Stanford early action admission rate is 9.2% according to Google. Regular admission 3.7%. Both higher than Berkeley CS.
Harvard ED admission rate 13.4%. Regular admission 4.5%. Again both higher than Berkeley CS.
Harvard admission rate is 6X that of Berkeley CS!
Iâve never been on campus there or in the area, but back then and probably even more so now, that area outside USC is not user friendly. While we chide the rich kids of USC, UCLA is the one that is in a posh and fun area.