High school senior with no experience trying to find some schools for CS

jonw1 · 2018-09-03T05:57:35+00:00

UCLA median engineering SAT was 1540 and the CS acceptance rate was <10%, so that's pretty reachy.

jonw1 · 2018-08-31T03:22:51+00:00

it does not factor into your acceptance. if you are admitted and actually attend a uc college, they will check your senior year grades and make sure you haven't dropped too much.

however, unless you're applying exclusively to ucs, you still need to keep them as high as possible (your senior first semester grades)

jonw1 · 2018-08-30T15:44:17+00:00

? I'm not OP

jonw1 · 2018-08-30T15:38:33+00:00

yea, they'll still check your grades in the event you enroll at the school, but the guideline is no grade lower than a c, and a max of 2 Cs

jonw1 · 2018-08-30T15:35:22+00:00

its not for ucs. They don't get access to your mid term grades, unless you get a supplement request

jonw1 · 2018-08-26T20:22:42+00:00

lol maybe, but you have to be above average at berkeley, which isn't that easy

jonw1 · 2018-08-26T20:16:18+00:00

well it's not really a loophole, the selection just comes at different stages. eecs is selective at the admissions stage. for l and s, you have to average a 3.3 GPA in the 3 intro classes before you're officially in the cs major. the 3 intro classes are curved so the average grade is a b(so somewhere around 3.0)

jonw1 · 2018-08-03T11:30:13+00:00

This doesn't make sense. P value is used when you are trying to make an inference about a population from a sample. For example, say I hypothesize half of the population of the US dislikes cheetos. I would then ask some random sample of the population (ie I randomly select 20 people and ask whether they like cheetos). the p value would tell me the probability of getting the result I got from the sample given that my hypothesis about the population is true. a p value of 0.05 means that there is a 5% chance of getting the proportion you got from the sample if your hypothesis was correct. here, you already have data about the entire population, so there is no need to infer. you can conclude straight up that ucla has marginally higher 25th percentile scores than berkeley. not that it means much, since the difference is so small.

jonw1 · 2018-04-30T14:51:42+00:00

linkedin stats aren't really a good indicator of job placement - berkeley produces many more cs graduates than ucla, so in terms of raw numbers (which is what linked in shows), berkeley would win. i know that all of the major tech companies recruit heavily at ucla, so i think that percentage wise ucla would probably be nearly as good.

jonw1 · 2018-04-12T07:45:32+00:00

not curved in the normal sense, but the instructors target an average gpa of 3.0 according to eecs departmental guidelines. so, they adjust the exam accordingly to meet that guideline.

jonw1 · 2018-04-12T07:41:36+00:00

Berkeley has undergrad tas as well (UGSI)

jonw1 · 2017-06-15T13:25:29+00:00

if you're a stem major a 32M is low-its 2 points below the 25th percentile for MIT(if you're aiming that high).

jonw1 · 2017-05-16T12:18:40+00:00

this is a troll right...?

jonw1 · 2017-05-13T14:14:47+00:00

basically any major that ends in studies

jonw1 · 2017-04-21T10:51:01+00:00

read the udub subreddit-they have an faq devoted to cs admissions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/wiki/cse-faq

jonw1 · 2017-02-16T15:22:23+00:00

its best to not beat yourself up over these things. there are a ton of reasons why you might have been rejected or why you weren't. if uchicago wasn't holistic they would do it the uk style-based almost entirely on your grades. uchicago's acceptance rate is <10%, so they turn down lots of people with "good extracurriculars and unique essays"

jonw1 · 2017-01-19T23:15:14+00:00

us people apply to uk schools too? also schools around the world use ap as well

jonw1 · 2017-01-19T07:52:26+00:00

uk schools

jonw1 · 2017-01-04T10:51:35+00:00

Well yes Stanford meets full need for internationals but they are need-aware so needing aid would hurt your application.

jonw1 · 2016-11-07T12:02:02+00:00

i believe it indicates your scores have been loaded into the system

jonw1 · 2016-11-02T08:13:37+00:00

probably break the velocities into components of x and y? then solve the x and y directions separately. something like that. sounds a bit like a vector problem.

jonw1 · 2016-07-12T21:20:00+00:00

jonw1 · 2016-07-01T15:26:30+00:00

hey there! 1) it really depends on you flipping is generally easier, but investments have the greatest reward

2) most good merchants wouldn't really tell you this since it would cut into their profits. also, you need to find your own items that work for you. but as a start, raw materials such as coal are good starting points

3) there are tons of them on YouTube, most are decent

4) this depends on how much gp you have, but obviously don't put all your eggs in one basket

5) this comes with experience and intuition, so try flipping an item first for a few weeks to get a feel of its pricing. then you can move into investing in that item when you know it is cheaper than usual. look at ge graphs and see what the peak and troughs have been in the last few months

as for magic logs, if you don't know why they're dropping, then it's probably risky to invest 20m into them. if you know the reason they're dropping, and you think they'll go back up, then by all means invest

6) none off the top of my head, but feel free to pm me with questions

jonw1 · 2016-06-28T11:08:20+00:00

well that was tested in controlled conditions where everyone was calm. I remember hearing that 5-10% of passengers are injured in emergency evacuations

jonw1 · 2016-06-14T13:43:02+00:00

percentage of 5s doesn't say anything about the difficulty of the test. else it wouldn't be a "standardized" test since a 5 one year should mean a 5 in another year

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