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Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>informal survey: which school is better in your opinion?</p>

<p>Berkeley - Regents and Chancellor's; Bioengineering
-prestige, money = yay!, good engineering program
-cutthroat competition, you have to be sure what major you want and can be wishy washy</p>

<p>Harvey Mudd - bio, 10,000 a year (pretty much nothing)
-smaller school, learn a lot without weeder classes
-kinda limited to something in engineering (in case i discover engineering isnt really want i wanna do), claustaphobic, too close to home</p>

<p>Duke
-prestige, relaxed, i can waive all my ap's, it has a forest on campus!
-cold, snobby stereotype</p>

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<p>if you don't like mudd now you will definitely hate it if you go here. probably shouldn't go to mudd.</p>

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<p>well i do think it is really pretty and i do like the whole idea of the small college where all the professors know your name and stuff its just im scared ill be claustrophobic once i get there</p>

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<p>What do you mean you can waive all your APs for Duke?</p>

<p>Edit: And I would choose Duke without a doubt. No brainer for me.</p>

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<p>Berkeley Regents f'sho</p>

<p>Money, Prestige, RCSA along with perks (Dining with faculty, networking, internship opportunities, ect)</p>

<p>The way I see it, Berkeley with regents is the benefits of a large college (socially) with the benefits of a small college (professionally).</p>

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<p>There are fairly different. Also, you could consider the surrounding locations, and the other four Claremonts and the options they open up within majors. You will have to take a massive science core, though. </p>

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cutthroat competition, you have to be sure what major you want and can be wishy washy

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Cutthroat seems exaggerated, and you don't have to be sure- there's some space to move, especially within Letters and Sciences.</p>

<p>Does Harvey Mudd not have difficult grading? This doesn't make it look like it's that low, but do they not give many F's or something? </p>

<p><a href="http://gradeinflation.com/hmudd.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://gradeinflation.com/hmudd.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Berkeley has a forest on campus.</p>

<p>What issues matter most to you?</p>

<p>I think the three places have different atmospheres. Don't you prefer one of the three schools over the other two without too much thought?</p>

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<p>drab, hmc has very difficult grading. they do not have a problem failing you if they feel you are not cutting it.</p>

<p>apparently, carnegie mellon grad school has "special weighting factors" only for two schools: caltech and hmc.</p>

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<p>The chart doesn't make it look that bad, but I bet each grade is a lot of work.</p>