<p>Ugh... this is not a good week for me. I guess I just wasn't meant to attend UCLA or Cal. Congradulations to all those that did make it though.</p>
<p>Obviously LA is a really good school but is it at the same level as Berkeley...are they equals academically? The admissions advisor at my community college who worked as an adcom at Davis, told me that I had a shot at LA and Davis, and Berkeley would be really hard, because it's Berkeley. I know people who chose LA over Berk, but they still said Berk is the better school. It is considered the better of the two, I don't know why and I don't know if that claim can be substantiated, but it's still an opinion held by many including the rankings everyone so readily discredits.</p>
<p>indieboy, sorry to hear that you got rejected. I feel your pain, I wanted to do EECS at cal for the longest time. The intense competition there and the low percentage of getting in is what convinced me to switch majors.</p>
<p>Masta, well noted. Read the book, "Harvard Shmarvard", that'll dispel any notion that it is indeed the best. However, I agree with you, Berkeley is largely regarded as the best public university not just by rankings list, but by people's perceptions to a degree.</p>
<p>Realistically, with the job market being as it is.....I'd hate to be unemployed, with a Berkeley degree, my cha-chas up in debt, and yet regretted my decision of going to a school...just for the name and "chance" at success, which is the way that some Berkeley grads are finding it to be. Mind you there are lulls even in a good job market, however....I'd like to think that any school I'd go to I'd do well, not because of the school, but largely in part of the person that I am becoming. If that makes any sense....I've always thought: it's not the school, it's the student.</p>
<p>UCLAri, I've watched Conan for years.....back when I used to have insomnia. He, um....went to Harvard? Oh, I mean I love the guy but his humor was always much too wacky at times and he didn't strike me as somone that went to an Ivy. lol</p>
<p>i believe that berkeley might be better overall academically.. then again its highly dependent upon major... gotta remember... no nobel prize winner ever graduated from any of the ivy leagues nor berkeley... it is what you put into it.</p>
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<p>whooaaa...are you serious? none? :eek:</p>
<p>I completely agree with you on that point Michelle, I think it would be a bad idea, atleast for me, to goto a school simply cuz I'll get more money or a better guarantee at getting a good job once I graduate, It's important but when the schools you're talking about are at a certain calibur it doesn't really matter, if you aren't happy you wont do as well. It isn't like you're deciding between san jose state and MIT, not a bad choice to have at all (between Berk and LA)...by they way I wasn't attempting to belittle LA or anything like that I would have liked the oppurtunity to go to either school.</p>
<p>Oh, woe is me... So, is anyone planning to appeal?</p>
<p>m5..I do agree that a school is def what you put into it..but um, not so much about the no nobel prize winners graduating from ive league schools...</p>
<p>all of the nobel prize winners WORK at ivy leagues.... but i dont believe any of them graduated from any ivy league</p>
<p>thatz wut i thought...take for example...John Nash from Beautiful Mind(movie with real story)...he graduated from Princeton and got a noble award...</p>
<p>i know many rec'd PhD's and such from the ivies and even berkley. :)</p>
<p>but like I said, I totally agree that you get what you put into an institution..be it harvard, ucla, or umm university of __________ (insert name here)</p>
<p>anyone know where i might find data about the acceptance rate? someone posted 14%, but i think that might have been EECS major specific. thx.</p>
<p>I was rejected from Haas. Sorry to all others who were rejected.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd also love the acceptance rate numbers as well......number of applicants/number of admits.....14% does sound extremely low, but hey....I don't know where that came from....</p>
<p>When did Nobel Prize winners mean great teachers? lol Anyway.....UCSB received three last year I believe among its faculty and they're not an Ivy, but still an excellent school....</p>
<p>Sorry to everyone who got rejected here :(
and i wish you guys the best of luck to all the other schools you applied to!</p>
<p>BruinMichelle, The 14% i mentioned is for EECS @ cal....i got the info from this thread</p>
<p>Indie boy....oh ok...gotcha.</p>
<p>Usually, in recent years at least, UCLA and Berkeley are about the same with 22-23%.....at least that's what it says in the Introducing the University materials.</p>
<p>Berkeley and UCLA are superrrrb schools. I can't imagine how anybody can say that one is better than the other; it's just too close to call, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Anyway, at this point in our "application lives," I think we should outgrow our dependence on the school rankings, especially among us UC transfers. All the UCs are in the top 50 universities of the nation, and that in itself is exceptional. We all have been admitted to wonderful, wonderful schools. We should be proud!</p>