Other schools like berkeley needed

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hi, looking for schools that are</p>

<p>1) well-rounded in every field, but with especially with excellent science programs</p>

<p>2) With a fun, lively student body - nothing in the middle of nowhere, please. Another example would be Duke. </p>

<p>3) Around UC Berkeley-tier, but can be lower. Don't name any Ivies, please. </p>

<p>4) Not a LAC</p>

<p>Any suggestions??</p>

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<p>Michigan of course!</p>

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<p>any uc’s are good and the california states universities are good too</p>

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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Are you in-state for UC Berkeley?</p>

<p>Is money no object? If you’ll be needing aid, most OOS publics cannot meet the need of OOS students. If money isn’t an issue, then GREAT!!! :)</p>

<p>What are your stats? </p>

<p>UVirginia can meet need, and it’s highly ranked.</p>

<p>UChicago</p>

<p>VANDERBILT!!! It’s in Nashville - a very fun campus and very fun city!!! :)</p>

<p>Rice is in a big city, but it’s in Houston - awful weather. (apologies to those who live in Houston).</p>

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<p>-Michigan
-Wisconsin
-Texas</p>

<p>Those three are all pretty dang similar to Berkeley and very good themselves.</p>

<p>For slightly smaller schools that fit your criteria, similar to Duke, I’d look at:</p>

<p>-UNC
-Vanderbilt
-Notre Dame
-Georgetown
-Boston College
-Virginia
-Rice</p>

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<p>agree with Texas… Austin is quite similar to Berkeley in many ways. And quite a few UT-Austin administrators have gone on to lead Berkeley and the UC System!</p>

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<p>I would add the following schools to MNTwins’s excellent list:</p>

<ul>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Washington (UW)</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
<li>U Miami</li>
</ul>

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<p>OP, here’s a list of schools I think are comparable, similar and peer schools of Berkeley:</p>

<p>Cornell
UPenn
Northwestern
Michigan
The Claremont Collages Consortium </p>

<p>Schools similar to Berkeley but slightly less prestigious:</p>

<p>Emory
USC
UCLA
UCSD
UNC
Wisconsin
CMU
Georgetown</p>

<p>Peer schools or schools similar to Berkeley but smaller:
Rice
Chicago
JHU</p>

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<p>U of Colorado, U of Arizona, U of Oregon, Boston U.</p>

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<p>How are these schools like/similar to Berkeley?</p>

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<p>"How are these schools like/similar to Berkeley? "</p>

<p>1) well-rounded in every field, but with especially with excellent science programs </p>

<p>2) With a fun, lively student body - nothing in the middle of nowhere, please. Another example would be Duke. </p>

<p>3) Around UC Berkeley-tier, but can be lower. Don’t name any Ivies, please. </p>

<p>4) Not a LAC</p>

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<p>no offense meant, but those are almost “never-heard” schools. </p>

<p>Berkeley is famous. Those schools aren’t.</p>

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<p>

The OP is presumably less picky than you, because (s)he specifically noted that schools could be lower tier.</p>

<p>None of those are weak universities, and each of them has strengths in certain fields that can match Berkeley (ecology at Colorado, anthropology at Arizona, zoology at Oregon and Oregon State, music, marine science, and archaeology at BU, etc.). </p>

<p>More importantly, everyone needs safeties and matches. You’re going to have a lot of disappointed rejects in April if you encourage them to only apply to highly selective universities!</p>

<p>(That said, I’m not sure I would classify BU as having a “fun, lively student body.” Boston is nice, yes, but campus life is decidedly dull.)</p>

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<p>Colorado tied for fourth with Princeton and Stanford in Quantum Physics: <a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-&lt;/a&gt;
schools/quantum-physics</p>

<p>Colorado #1 in Molecular/Atomic/Optical Physics: <a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-schools/atomic-science[/url]”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-schools/atomic-science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Colorado #10 in Physical Chemistry: <a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/physical-science[/url]”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-chemistry-schools/physical-science&lt;/a&gt;
Arizona has one of the top Astronomy programs anywhere.</p>