<p>From two of their very own.</p>
<p>Another bitter reject?</p>
<p>sounds like it.
at my school, 50 kids get into cal, and all envy the 5 or so who get into stanford (hint, i'm one of the 5 this year) :)</p>
<p>Jeez, obviously the article is biased. Not everyone going to Stanford has to rake out the "big bucks". But i am not here to argue.</p>
<p>Quite frankly, is there anything wrong in drinking coffee with an advisor? And as far as I've heard (and I've heard a lot), students at Stanford DO work hard, even if they seem more relaxed. It's called a community. It's not hardcore like Berkeley, and that just makes for a more social and lively atmosphere.</p>
<p>Quite honestly, it's not fair to flood our board with the same article ten times. It's been posted before, and we've all already commented on it. I don't think any Stanford members are going to the Cal board to flood it. Please give us the same courtesy that we have been giving you. And it shouldn't be your concern who decides to go to Cal and who decides to go to Stanford. You have made your choice, please let others make their's.</p>
<p>Notice that at the end of the article, the authors specifically emphasize that they would rather be at Stanford than at Cal. It acknowledges that Stanford is not perfect, but it's still the right school for them. If anything, this article will make people want to go to Stanford just because it doesn't flaunt prestige; it's modest and realistic. Your response to this article makes you seem irrational. Why would people want to go to Berkeley if everyone there has an agressive attitude like the one you're impressing upon us?</p>
<p>Okay, sorry, rant. I'm not trying to be mean; many of my best friends are at Cal this year, and they never bash on Stanford, and I never bash on Cal. It's not fair or appropriate if you're being discourteous towards us when we have never been discourteous towards you. Not to mention, flooding is not allowed in these forums.</p>
<p>My head already exploded a couple of these threads back...</p>
<p>Read this article by the same authors, written a couple weeks after the Stanford-bashing one:</p>
<p>"It all started with our bold statement: 'Berkeley is pretty much unequivocally better than Stanford.' We're sorry to admit it, but we don’t really think that’s true."</p>
<p>Yeah. It was, unfortunately, a joke. Tough luck.</p>
<p>ROFL. Yeah. That article, buddy, is basically bull****. The authors put it in as a joke. Besides, who cares? No one really reads the Daily anyway. :-P</p>
<p>Some random defenses:
Yeah, Palo Alto's ritzy and all, but at least our 10-buck plates come without an indigestion guarantee. Grade inflation? Are you freaking kidding me? That crap happens at Berkeley, if anything. Here you gotta bust your butt twenty times over to earn an A+. Hell, we're ecstatic if we can score an A, cuz it means we were basically at/near the top of the class. One of the classes I recently took: only 4 out of over 320 students got A+s. On that note, yeah, we do go grab coffee or lunch with our advisors if we run into things. There're fewer students here, so they can actually pay attention to us.</p>
<p>Oh, and I just realized: only a Berkeley cub would be silly (read: retarded) enough to believe that joke of an article. Wow. Thanks, dude, you just made my day.</p>
<p>Yeah. It's a joke. The Daily doesn't print stuff that's that bitter.</p>