<p>Honestly sakky, I don’t understand why a student that got 2 F’s and 2 D’s in a semester should be allowed to stay at Berkeley. Those grades are insanely bad. Out of all my friends at Cal, I don’t even know a single person that has gotten even one D, let alone an F. It doesn’t matter if it was his first semester, I just have trouble finding sympathy for someone who got grades like that. Even the smallest bit of effort is enough to get a C…</p>
<p>EDIT: And as for your question about why Stanford and MIT can give students some leeway, well the admissions standards at those two schools do most of the necessary weeding work…most Stanford and MIT admits are quality students. The same cannot be said for the bottom half of Berkeley students, yet many of them still manage to get degrees.</p>