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Well, he had to apply to a couple safeties … just in case he couldn’t get into Berkeley.</p>
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<p>Most international students apply to 8 or so schools. We did that in our high school too. So, it’s possible that a high school councilor pimp Duke to him as a fall back. I did get into Duke too and didn’t go. It does not have as much reputation internationally as it has nationally. </p>
<p>I think we are all aware how powerful the Berkeley brand name abroad is specially in Europe. What I was actually questioning is, he got onto the computer science programme but in the College of L&S, which is not the same as EECS, from what I know, whilst he got into EECS at Cornell.</p>
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<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the tuition for International Students is something like almost 15k per semester. Multiply that by two = 30k. Plus $28,312 for living expenses. Then you’d have to budget for airfare, which would be 2x or 3x a year. BUT I honestly did not get how he made his computations.</p>
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[UC</a> Berkeley Financial Aid Office Cost of Attendance](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm]UC”>http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm)</p>
<p>$28,312 includes $9,748 education fees paid by all student, resident or not. On top of that, OOS/international students have to pay non-resident tuition of $21,670 for a total of $49,982.</p>
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Whatever additional expenses he budgets for Berkeley also has to be budgeted for Cornell.</p>