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<p>dear anonymousername, it’s called sarcasm.</p>
<p>you and I can make four ends to two.</p>
<p>And we’ve now descended into sad and creepy… or maybe we did that long long ago. </p>
<p>I’m going to work on my portfolio, certs, etc. so I can become competitive in this miserable job market. Give so much of myself and this is what I get in reward… should have gone to UCSB and drank my liver into submission, dated more & hotter girls, and just cruised through college (with a more marketable major I might add!) if I knew this was going to be my reward. <em>grumblegrumble</em> I am adapting and trying to maintain an open mind. Thesis of my point? If I knew what was going to happen, I’d have gone some place easier, had more fun, and not look back at my college years as pretty much a wash.</p>
<p>And I have said my peace on this, topic closed, finite, etc., so I’m not going to say anymore, PM me if you need me.</p>
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<p>A bizarre set of comments indeed: keep reading the thread to let everybody know that you’re not interested in the thread, concluding with a comment telling everybody that you’ve said your peace. </p>
<p>Seems to me that if you’re not interested in the thread and you’ve said your peace, then you should simply stop participating. Why continue to post in a thread that you don’t care about?</p>
<p>to see if you keep responding. to stop me from posting on this thread anymore, you need to demotivate me. stop responding to me and I will have no reason to post. It’s not really complicated. </p>
<p>hope that clears thing up! :)</p>
<p>Time to french kiss and make up…</p>
<p>soooo basically we’re not happy here.</p>
<p>That’s what these comments would appear to reflect.</p>
<p>Most people say they love their college.</p>
<p>That doesn’t really happen here.</p>
<p>Hey, I love Cal! I think most people who frequently visit this website are those who take things a little too seriously and get easily disappointed…</p>
<p>I’m proud of Berkeley for accepting students based on how smart they are and not where they came from.</p>
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<p>whatever helps to increase Berkeley’s “diversity” my man. ^</p>
<p>"That said, I think an often-overlooked argument is how much better the high-performance students at Berkeley do with grad school admissions than high-performance students at other schools. A student with a 3.9+ GPA and good test scores at Berkeley has a substantially better shot at the top grad schools than a graduate of a less selective undergrad program with a comparable GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>Students with lower GPAs at Berkeley, however, do not receive this benefit. I believe if someone knows they would be the type of student who would receive a GPA <3.5 at Berkeley, then they would probably best maximize their chances at getting into the most prestigous grad programs if they made the intentional choice to attend a less selective college and tried to be a GPA standout. The median student at Berkeley is smart- but at Berkeley they are average, and this may cause them problems when classes are curved around 2.7. Speaking totally from completely discountable personal experience, the unhappiest and most discouraged kids (and the heaviest drinkers, incidentally) at Berkeley seem to me to be the ones that got strong GPAs/SATs in high school but either aren’t disciplined enough or smart enough to really excel in Berkeley premed or science programs."</p>
<p>The foregoing (I don’t know how to do those little, vertical arrows) is spot-on. When I went for medical school interviews, I heard, redundantly, with no attempt at masking the awe, “Gee, how’d you do so well at Cal? It’s a hard school, and you have a stellar transcript.” Clearly, graduate schools know what is involved in doing well, very well, especially in a challenging [Physics] major. People with high GPAs, whom I know, from prestigious schools, but with known grade inflation, did not fair as well as I in the medical school acceptance game.</p>
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<p>Uh, why don’t you stop responding to me? After all, you were the one who claimed not to care about this thread, not me. It’s not really complicated. Otherwise, perhaps you should retract your claim that you were never interested in this thread.</p>
<p>Which classes happen to be curved around 2.7? So far, I haven’t experienced any of those classes. Besides, what do professors hope to achieve by having such a low curve? Do they actually think that because they make their tests impossible, this will encourage students to study harder? On the contrary, I think the most effective examinations are the ones where most people who studied hard can pass with a good grade while filtering out the slackers.</p>
<p>I don’t think that college education needs the elementary/high school “everyone can succeed if they try hard” approach. You shouldn’t be able to get an A in a college class just because you didn’t slack off; you should have to actually be good at the subject.</p>
<p>Uh Chem 3A, Chem 3B and Bio 1A seem to have an average grade of B- (2.7 GPA). Basically most pre-med classes have a 2.7-3.0 average.</p>
<p>NO UC is racist apparently. lmao.</p>
<p>My analysis:</p>
<p>UC Davis-The people I know who got accepted into Davis are warm, friendly people, but not that intellectual. I don’t think they got accepted because they’re necessarily smart, but because they’re good, kind people in general who work hard and do lots of community service and stuff.</p>
<p>UCLA-The people I know who got accepted in LA are very cool and down to earth but also very smart. They are definitely not as intellectual as Berkeley kids but still sophisticated. They’re also sort of Asian/geeky.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley-The people I know who got accepted in Berkeley are all nice people and extremely intellectual. They know a ton about the economy, politics, international affairs, etc. They’re always analyzing and debating things for fun and talking about policies.</p>
<p>“Which classes happen to be curved around 2.7? So far, I haven’t experienced any of those classes. Besides, what do professors hope to achieve by having such a low curve? Do they actually think that because they make their tests impossible, this will encourage students to study harder? On the contrary, I think the most effective examinations are the ones where most people who studied hard can pass with a good grade while filtering out the slackers.”</p>
<p>Nah, college is the same. You still succeed if you work hard. The only difference is that you have to work even harder than all your other hard-working peers. Oh, and that you actually fail if you don’t work hard. </p>
<p>I guess another way to say it is that college removes your fail safe, forcing you to work harder than you did before to achieve the same result you did in high school.</p>