undergrad Berkeley EECS honors to Berkeley cs Ph.D?

[hahakk]

Is it true that if you are in Berkeley EECS honors program, maintain good gpa (i.e. >3.9/4.0), and successfully complete research requirement, you will have very high chance of getting into Berkeley CS Phd?

I know Berkeley CS Phd is extremely difficult to get in, as much as MIT or Stanford, but I heard some of my friends (I go to Berkeley) saying this, and also it is shown on the website that many of the EECS honors program alumni do go to Berkeley grad school (although it could be masters or EE program...). Does anyone know about this?

Edited March 22, 2012 by hahakk

[hahakk]

btw, of course one will have high chance if he has high gpa and good research experience, but I am especially talking about whether there exists some relationship between the undergrad honors program and the grad school admission.

[anacron]

I don't see why not. I was (effectively) automatically admitted to my ugrad. Essentially my advisor said not to worry about admissions and spoke to the dept chair to strongly recommended my admission. The same seems to be the case at Berkeley.

From the recent Berkeley visit I found that all of the other admits for scientific computing are current Berkeley ugrads. So its not as rare as you think, but you do need to impress your research advisor.