9/12 Do you think Berkeley CS or EECS has grade inflation or deflation?
I'm talking about Undergrad.
\_ It's a "fact" that grades are inflated at Berkeley in general, and
EECS/CS in particular. Average ugrad GPA was like 3.06 and EECS was
3.2. I think CS was 3.4 or something but that's partially because
CS rejects major in applied math or cog sci. But the average GPA is
supposed to be around a 2.7. There was a DailyCal article with all
these stats about a year ago.
\_ Having studied in several departments, I can tell you without
qualification that EECS students are a cut above most of the
campus. If they have a higher ave. GPA, they've earned it.
Probably by kicking ass in non-EECS classes, possibly by
having to jump a huge bar to get into EECS. --PeterM
\_ damn, when I was in school, the ave. was ~ 2.5
for engineers, with ud only ave. ~ 3.1.
\_ Bullshit. What year did you graduate?
kicking people out has NOTHING to dowith those grades.
\_ 97 and I said engineers, not just EECS.
\_ Bullshit. The article I read was written in 1999
(I think) and 3.1 was the average eng GPA. The data
probably came from '98 grads.
\_ I guess I'm below ave. then. Oh well...
I wonder how many of those ave. eng. have patents
and wrote books since graduating? Perhaps GPA
isn't everything...
\_ uhh, of course the fact that EECS tends to be aggresive about
kicking people out has NOTHING to do with those grades.
\_ EECS kicks people out after 4/5 years, not for bad grades.
My friend graduated with a 2.46.
\_ I think he meant weeding the weak folks out during the
first two years.
\_ This is completely inaccurate. Some of the weak (and
arguably a whole lot more strong folks who get bounced
out by weak folks playing GPA games) get weeded from
L&S CS, but very few EECS majors get weeded. It's
REALLY hard to flunk out of EECS.
\_ I agree. By any standards, I tried pretty hard.
I think for all my classes in 4 years at Cal I
went to a total of maybe 50 lectures. |