<p>Okay so I plan on going to law school and everyone's saying to go to UCI, since it'll be easier to maintain a 4.0 thereee... soo, how hard would it be maintain a 4.0 at Cal?</p>
<p>it depends on what you take.</p>
<p>meaninggg…?</p>
<p>My my friend who’s an international student from the Philippines graduated from polsci from Cal with a gpa of 3.8++ and an LSAT of 179. She got into Harvard, Yale, Boalt, Columbia, Chicago, NYU, Michigan and Duke law schools but was turned down by Stanford law. She decided to go to Boalt. :)</p>
<p>It depends on what you take.</p>
<p>I am currently studying for PS109H. We have a midterm tomorrow on 18 lectures and ~2-3000 pages of reading (~40 different authors). There is no study guide, the GSI led study session was vague and without direction (Q&A session), we are being asked to remember each author’s name and “a paragraph or two” to explain each one’s argument, etc.</p>
<p>I have a 44,000 word ‘outline’ I am currently in the process of memorizing (it’s 72 pages long). I am starting to fetishize sleep it’s become so rare.</p>
<p>^ That is insane. Please don’t tell me that is one of the “easy” professors…</p>
<p>No, it’s with a new professor fresh from Yale: Jacob Hacker (he’ll probably see this on a google-feed given his proven internet savvy-ness [ability to google his own name] and my login name isn’t that anonymous). </p>
<p>I reviewed his syllabus for the same course at Yale (which was more of a writing-focused course); it was around the same reading, but without a midterm and a second paper instead. As far as I know, this is the first time the course has been offered at Berkeley, so I think certain kinks are still being mulled over. I just hope it doesn’t come at the expense of my GPA.</p>
<p>Most everyone in the course, or at least in my study group, has voiced concern over what particularly they should be studying. I mean, it’s one of those courses where the professor and GSI’s study suggestion is to review everything.</p>
<p>That being said, I would highly recommend the course. Hacker is a smart guy and seems to have a lot of potential – academically and politically.</p>
<p>Sounds interesting. However, I would have difficulty taking that class where the professor is the antithesis of everything I stand for. Could be fun though…</p>