So there's actually smart undergrads at Berkeley

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Let me see if I understand you. You personally are so brilliant that you are a top 1% scholar at Berkeley, but not only that, you don’t even find your top scholar cohort to be as smart as you? </p>

<p>Yet you actually believe one’s intelligence can be determined after talking to them for a few minutes at a reception (how many minutes could you spend with each of a gbillion)? And it shocks you to realize- only now- that intellectual outliers are found in top public universities?</p>

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<p>Like I said . . . they were all a bunch of twats bragging about how wonderful it was scrubbing test tubes for their epic internships.</p>

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<p>ur an idiot caiacs, no fense</p>

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<p>agreed</p>

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<p>You can tell there is internet nerds at berkeley when all they do is ■■■■■ on teh forumz</p>

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<p>still mad you didn’t get in to private school so you isolate yourself by imagining you’re so much better than everyone else (even the USAMO qualifier you not so subtly describe as having an “autism-esque stare”)? just because the people at the r/c reception didn’t immediately impress you in your cursory interaction with them doesn’t mean that they aren’t in fact quite intelligent. let it go, man. you’re clearly smart, but there are plenty of smart people at berkeley too. nothing to be ashamed of about going to public school.</p>

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<p>how’s this exactly?</p>

<p>his/her posts seem to be filled with insecurity and inadequacy. Most people at Berkeley are rejected from higher ranked private schools, some are just more bitter about it than others.</p>

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<p>This is more of a jab toward those who don’t respect the undergraduate student body at Berkeley with some anecdotal evidence showing that the smartest people here can easily match the smartest people at any college.</p>

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<p>Funny, because I always viewed Berkeley as the smartest UC school, followed closely by UCLA for mathematics. </p>

<p>USAMO is much harder than any other Olympiad. The others have about 20,000 kids take test while the AMC has 400,000 students, hence 1 in 800 for the top 500, as opposed to top 400 of 20,000 or 1/50, which is a mere 2% compared to Math’s 0.125% :D</p>