Berkeley versus Merced

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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"Of course the issue becomes more complicated, as some professors are heavily involved in research and do not care to teach undergrads (in Berkeley's case)"</p>

<p>Are you going to show some proof of this? You obviously don't have first hand experience to back up your claim (as you have been a student here for less than a month), so I'm wondering where you got this idea.

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<p>You don't need proof. He isn't saying that EVERY prof is like this, but you can bet that several are more devoted to their research than to teaching. Many times these guys have to teach in order to get funding for their research. It only makes since that a few people would rather not be in the classroom.</p>

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<p>And why is it that you say Berkeley is like this, but act as if it's not so at Merced?</p>

<p>Furthermore, this thread is kinda lame . . . :(</p>

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And why is it that you say Berkeley is like this, but act as if it's not so at Merced?</p>

<p>Furthermore, this thread is kinda lame . . .

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<p>For reals. Who started this ****ty thread?</p>

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<p>Because I think Berkeley is more heavily involved in research than Merced.</p>

<p>And yeah, all the threads are kinda lame now. But I honestly have no other way of procrastinating. Oh well.</p>

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<p>"Because I think Berkeley is more heavily involved in research than Merced."</p>

<p>That's not what you said earlier. Of course Berkeley, which is a juggernaut research institution, is more involved in research. It's bigger, with more money and more prestige than Merced, but what you said was that individual teachers are more heavily involved in research, which I don't see any evidence for.</p>

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<p>Vividditudes: All the other threads are kinda lame now?? And who is responsible for this???? Why not just give it up?</p>

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<p>Come on SnuggleMonster, if the university is much more heavily involved in research, who's conducting them? Many professors, that's for sure. So it's a logical conclusion that the professors are more involved in research (since...there is more of that). I don't know if there are any studies that actually compares the two, and I'm certainly too lazy to look it up. But just because we don't have numerous sources of empirical data backing something up doesn't mean we can't logically deduce its probability of occuring, either.</p>

<p>CA2006: my User Name's horrible spelling aside, I'm not sure who is responsible for that. Maybe I am partly responsible. Hey the forums were getting too depressing so it's fun to mess around once in a while. But now most of these threads are getting lame and uninteresting. I've been thinking about giving CC up sure, for a while. Maybe find a better hobby (shouldn't be too hard). September isn't a very exciting month for college admissions.</p>