<p>California has the lay back life style</p>
<p>they are both great schools. does one have to be better?
personally, i prefer Cal for myself and my major. i like the
people at Cal. i was born at Stanford and my dad went to
both Cal and Stanford so i don’t see any real need to say one
is better than the other. they are different.
just visit the schools, check out the programs
and go to the one you prefer. cheers.</p>
<p>"they are both great schools. does one have to be better? "</p>
<p>they don’t have to be, but they are</p>
<p>assuming you can afford either university stanford is clearly superior…</p>
<p>or to put it in a different way it’d be more common for students to choose stanford over berkeley if they had the choice</p>
<p>and i go to ucb in case anyone is wondering…</p>
<p>If you polled every Stanford undergrad freshman and offered them the option to transfer to Berkeley, I’d be willing to bet that <1% of them would take it. If you asked the Berkeley students, guessing >33% would jump on it, no questions asked. </p>
<p>That should answer your question. (I’m a Berkeley student, by the way.)</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>That was a little snippy. More in-depth explanation: </p>
<p>Know a guy at Goldman Sachs from Stanford. Humanities major, played tennis there for 4 years, and summers too. Junior year, decided he wanted to do I-Banking. Applied to Goldman, interviewed got the summer internship, full-time job after. That was his first job. And his first job interview. Loved his time at Stanford. </p>
<p>Girl I know at Goldman Sachs from Berkeley. Engineering/Business Admin double major. Did internships in Sales and Trading sophomore year, worked part-time all 4 years. In, literally, 15 different clubs, student government work, etc. Most insane person I know, sleeps maybe 4 hours a night, tops. Interviewed with probably 20 different places, got the internship. I assume she liked her time at Berkeley. </p>
<p>But I think most of us would rather be Stanford guy. Sounds a lot nicer.</p>
<p>Look, Berkeley and Stanford offer the same opportunities. But at Berkeley, there are literally hundreds of people trying to get the same job, internship, research position, etc. It just makes everything more difficult.</p>
<p>I think those two examples are a bit extreme! If your major is overcrowded, there are clear advantages to picking one school over another. If not, all of a sudden I do not see a clear advantage in terms of ease of obtaining opportunity.</p>
<p>I think a more important poll would be to ask graduating seniors from both schools if they wished they had gone to the other. You’d be surprised by the results.</p>
<p>[10</a> top colleges for tech CEOs](<a href=“http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/53953?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2012-07-03#slide6]10”>http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/53953?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2012-07-03#slide6) </p>
<p>berkeley > stanford</p>
<p>^Because being a Tech CEO is the ultimate goal of everyone…</p>