How could Berkeley be a great school...?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>If it is so easy to get into? I don't understand how a university that only looks at numbers (aka, doesn't differentiate between a high GPA from a feed school and a high GPA from a subpar public school) can compete with the likes of the Ivies, obviously including Stanford, MIT, Duke, UChicago and Georgetown...</p>

<p>Not to mention, the budget cuts that are repeatedly getting worse in California.</p>

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<p>Oh it’s this guy again. <em>grabs popcorn</em></p>

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<p>^Haha .</p>

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<p>Hopefully he’ll realize one day that making himself look like a huge idiot on the internet doesn’t really do much to progress his life . . .</p>

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<p>lol <em>sips boba</em></p>

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<p>What flavor boba is it?</p>

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<p>lol caicas. I can do whatever I’d like on the Internet and not give at all. Why does it matter if you’re never going to find out who I really am? You want me to feel shameful because someone on the internet thinks some nameless someone is acting like an idiot? Ever check out the fanboy “Superman vs Goku” comic threads? </p>

<p>I like how instead of you people providing me with calm answers, you all attempt to sidetrack from the thread. How boring.</p>

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<p>These Berkeley students were obviously too sub-par/ignorant/un-Ivy to understand your question and type up a MIT worthy response. So just leave if you find this place too boring.</p>

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<p>I do plan to leave. I guess I shouldn’t have expected anything more. :o</p>

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<p>God why are some people so insecure . . . why can’t they just look themselves in the mirror and say “I bring valuable to this world” instead of wallowing in their own despair looking for the slightest sliver of pride.</p>

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<p>Lets see you even get into MIT. And why are you hopeful of getting into berkeley if ur going to diss the ones that ARE here? You said urself “I realize my GPA puts me at a serious disadvantage,” hahaah trollllololol</p>

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<p>oh and chairman, i actually just lied. i couldn’t think of anything else. u got me. haha jk but if it did get a boba, it wouldve been milk tea. namayamanam i wish i had boba. i spend like 100 on boba a month. not kidding.</p>

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<p>this is a weird space. where ■■■■■■ meet in a thread. who’s Will will reign supreme!? lol… “Will will”…</p>

<p>ahem. </p>

<p>yeah idk.</p>

<p>if we were all sitting around in a circle in the same room, this conversation would never come up. </p>

<p>the internet does strange things to people u_u</p>

<p>sadly though, this thread fizzled out pretty fast…just needa get RML in this thread to get the pot cookin with MrPrince. i guess clueless can join in as an interesting 3rd challenger.</p>

<p>RE: triple battle: <a href=“http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/d/d2/Triple_battle.png[/url]”>http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/d/d2/Triple_battle.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Caltech’s better than MIT. That’s all i got to say :p</p>

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<p>the person accusing the berkeley students of sidetracking the thread asks the berkeley students if they ever read some Superman vs Goku thread…ok.</p>

<p>Have YOU ever read said thread? Because I haven’t. Clearly, you are doing at least two things to not further your life, MsPrincess.</p>

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<p>Jesus why do you guys like to go to elite schools like the Ivies, obviously including Stanford, MIT, Duke, UChicago and Georgetown…drop out of school and be a billionaire like gates, zuckerberg etc and probably get the same education at the public library.</p>

<p>Not to mention with the economy so bad, you’d probably be competitive for jobs at starbucks with a Harvard degree.</p>

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<p>Because everyone can do that, right?</p>

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<p>No, he’s right…judgment on the internet is inevitable. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make the lives of the ‘Superman v. Goku’ fanfic authors any less depressing. </p>

<p>I’ll freely admit that Cal undergrad is overrated, but that doesn’t make Cal students any less competent academics or intellectuals than MIT students or Caltech students or Princeton students, etc. I’d take the kid who worked their ass off at Berkeley over a legacy kid who scraped the bottom at Harvard any day – especially from the perspective of grad school admissions. The persistence of those who choose to conflate prestige with excellence is frustrating, sure, but ultimately not particularly important. </p>

<p>Good luck with your life, bro. Usually people grow out of this kind of thing – hopefully it happens sooner rather than later?</p>

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<p>Haha Clueless, I was being 100% sarcastic. Guess it doesn’t carry well across the Internet, but you should have realized it looking at my user-name that I would not diss my top choice school.</p>

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<p>@ Knitknots - and everyone can go to those elite schools? If he wants to brag about being the greatest thing in the world, getting into those schools is probably not the **** he should be doing. There are better things out there he can do with his time.</p>