<p>A lot of rich Asian Americans attend Berkeley. Yet they still act down to earth. Now thats hella cool.</p>
<p>I find it funny that whenever I talk to a Berkeley student and they find out I'm from Stanford, they either say one of three things:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Wow, the grading must be a lot easier there huh? I suppose you don't have to work nearly as hard as I do to earn your grade.</p></li>
<li><p>Ah, you go to that country club in Palo Alto?</p></li>
<li><p>Fcuk Stanford. We got the Axe, hahahahah! You football team blows!</p></li>
<li><p>Oh, I didn't even apply to Stanfurd. I prefer Berkeley a lot more because we live in the real world, unlike you guys, who are in a bubble.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>How would someone know how hard the grading was if they attended a different school?
. . . . . . . psychic or divine?</p>
<p>Woodwork, there are measure of grade inflation and deflation. A dean of admissions for PhD programs at a well known university personally told me himself that they view a 3.0 from Berkeley the same as a 3.5 - 3.6 from most other schools. Admittedly, Law Schools, and Medical schools do not differentiate between grade inflation and deflation schools that much.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, even if you graduate with a 3.0, you are considered to the same as a higher engineering GPA from Stanfurd.</p>
<p>Of course they do if they are comparing Cal with Arkansas, but I doubt this is the case if they are comparing Cal with Michigan or Dartmouth</p>
<p>Yeah, see that's the thing Westside. I don't like it when somebody tries to completely discredit the amount of hard work a student puts into at places like Stanford, Harvard, and other top privates. When they see a high GPAs they automatically believe that somehow these students didn't earn them because of "massive grade inflation." Little do they know that the students worked very hard for the entire quarter, and that the academic workload at top privates is far from easy.</p>
<p>Gutrade, as long as grade inflation exists at schools like Stanfurd, people will believe that. </p>
<p>Yale, U of Chicago, and Cornell are private schools known for grading tough. Not as much as UCLA, Berkeley, Cal Tech and MIT, but definitely tough grading.</p>
<p>Maybe it's a form of jealousy among Berkeley students that prompts them to say that Stanford students don't earn their grades. I mean after all, weren't most Berkeley people rejected by Stanford in the first place? They have to contend with lower grades AND go to a less reknowned school. I'd be ****ed too.</p>
<p>Ubermensch, aren't u tired of getting whooped by me by now? Bow down to yo daddy, btw, do you have a pretty sister? I promise I'll have her back home by 3 am.</p>
<p>I do beleive that at stanford's and other elite private schools it is easier to get higher grades then at schools like berkeley and UCLA, but it is not because they work less hard. The reason they are higher is because the administration will baby the student more. A 3.5 student at berkeley would have to be seilf motivated to learn the meteral that well, while a 3.5 at stanford will kno the meterial just as well they would have been pushed and helped much more by others. that is why a 3.5 at berk is > then a 3.5 at stanford, but not by too much.</p>
<p>Socalnick, that is not necessarily true, it's harder to get higher grades at Caltech and MIT than at Berkeley or UCLA; U of Chicago and Cornell are also known for their tough grading.</p>
<p>i never mentioned those schools because i know they have hard gradeing i was more refering to the ones that have average gpas at about 3.5.</p>
<p>Dude rooster08 don't you have better things to do than go on berk forums and try to make stanford look better? Talk about major inferiority complex...</p>
<p>Same goes for you ubermensch, get a life dude. Why are you guys so jealous and annoying? There's a differnece between being prideful about the school you go to and being an absolute prick. Grow up seriously, if you go to such good schools, why dont you try to act a little mature?</p>
<p>I think you mean that rooster08 has a SUPERIORITY complex, not an inferiority one. Cause Stanford> Berkeley.</p>
<p>ubermensch doesn't have an inferiority complex, because he doesn't even go to Stanford. He's just full of it.</p>
<p>I don't have to go to Stanford to know that it is WAY better than Berkeley. Anyone can tell you that. Comparing Stanford to Berkeley is like comparing a Jaguar to a beat up volvo.</p>
<p>Yeah but you got neither dude. You're on the bus.</p>
<p>Nicely put bigbrother (reference to 1984?) =P</p>
<p>But it's not like it's that hard to get that beat up volvo you call a Berkeley education. Anyone can fail high school, rack up easy A's at a no-name community college for two years, and transfer into Berkeley. They would have also skipped all those nonsense lower-division classes where 1000+ Berkeley students are herded into lecture halls like a bunch cows being sent to slaughter. The only difference? Getting slaughtered is a lot less painful.</p>
<p>You're definitely one to speak about losers stuck in city college, ubermensch. I'm sure the City College of San Francisco of yours has some stringent admissions standards.</p>