Someone cheer me up

[whatever1989]

<p>I'm out of state and got accepted to Berkeley for EECS. I know its not something thats easy to do and that Berkeley is an AWESOME school.</p>

<p>but...i just got rejected to stanford (my dream school)...and im feeling really down.</p>

<p>someone tell me some great stuff about Berkeley so i can feel better and excited.</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>Berkeley’s faculty are top:</p>

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Berkeley’s current faculty includes 221 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows, 2 Fields Medal winners, 83 Fulbright Scholars, 139 Guggenheim Fellows, 87 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 132 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 84 Sloan Fellows, and 7 Wolf Prize winners.[40] 61 Nobel Laureates are associated with the university, the sixth most of any university in the world; twenty have served on its faculty. (See list of distinguished Berkeley faculty.)

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<p>It has lots of inventions and discoveries:</p>

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Among their many achievements, Berkeley scientists invented the cyclotron, discovered the antiproton, played a key role in developing the laser, explained the processes underlying photosynthesis, isolated the polio virus, designed experiments that confirmed Bell’s theorem, created the widely used BSD Unix computer operating system, and discovered numerous transuranic elements on the Periodic Table, including seaborgium, plutonium, berkelium, lawrencium and californium.

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<p>Lots of contributions to your field:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia”>University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>It’s ranked in the top 5 for EE. And Stanford and Berkeley usually compete for second place in engineering.</p>

<p>Rankings are favorable for Berkeley:</p>

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According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top ten in their fields (97%, 35 of 36 programs) and first nationally in the number of “distinguished” programs for the scholarship of the faculty (32 programs).[61] Berkeley is the only university in the nation to achieve top 5 rankings for all of its PhD programs in those disciplines covered by the US News and World Report graduate school survey. In a survey of “Top American Research Universities” released by The Center for Measuring University Performance at Arizona State University, Berkeley ranked seventh overall and first among public institutions.[62]

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In addition to its distinguished post-graduate programs, US News also consistently ranks Berkeley as the nation’s top undergraduate public university and within the top three overall for both Undergraduate Business and Undergraduate Engineering. U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Berkeley’s undergraduate program twenty-first nationally in terms of “academic excellence.” In its 2007 annual college rankings, The Washington Monthly ranks Berkeley third nationally with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility.[63] 31% of admitted students receive federal Pell grants.[64]

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The THES - QS World University Rankings[65] ranked Berkeley eighth in the world in 2006 [4], and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute for Higher Education ranked Berkeley third in the world [5] in its 2007 rankings. Those rankings were based upon alumni and faculty quality defined by academic reputation, as well as awards won, papers published, international presence, student to faculty ratio, frequency of citation by peers, and performance relative to size. In the 2006 international edition of Newsweek, Berkeley was the fifth-ranked global university.[6]

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<p>It had about a 21% acceptance rate this year.</p>

<p>Its library is amazing (closer to 11 million volumes now):</p>

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Berkeley’s 32 libraries together tie for fourth largest academic library in the United States with University of Illinois, surpassed only by the Library of Congress, Harvard, and Yale. In 2003, the Association of Research Libraries ranked it as the top public and third overall university library in North America based on various statistical measures of quality.[67]As of 2006, Berkeley’s library system contains over 10 million volumes and maintains over 70,000 serial titles.[68] The libraries together cover over 12 acres of land and comprise one of the largest library complexes in the world.[69]

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<p>It offers more than 300 degree programs–one of the most eclectic in the US.</p>

<p>At any given time, some 7,000 courses are offered. About 3,500 are undergrad courses that you can choose from.</p>

<p>It’s older than Stanford and has a richer history. 1960s anyone? Its traditions are also great:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia”>University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>The student life at Berkeley is probably better, because you have the city of Berkeley right there. Tons of cheap little restaurants (everything from Greek to Ethiopian), lots of cheap little bookstores, cafes galore, myriad things to do. Oakland is right next door for more. And if you want big city, SF is just a BART hop away. At Stanford, you’d have to take the Marguerite to Palo Alto, and get on the CalTrain to SF. The BART doesn’t even go to Stanford.</p>

<p>Housing is great, very diverse. You can try the units, co-ops, apartments, Greek housing, themed housing, international houses, etc.:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California, Berkeley student housing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_student_housing]University”>University of California, Berkeley student housing - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Berkeley has big-time athletics:</p>

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Cal has a long history of excellence in athletics, having won national titles in football, men’s basketball, baseball, softball, men’s and women’s crew, men’s gymnastics, men’s tennis, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s water polo, men’s track, and men’s rugby. In addition, Cal athletes have won numerous individual NCAA titles in track, gymnastics, swimming and tennis.

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California finished in first place[8]in the 2007-2008 Fall U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings (Formerly the Sears Cup), which measures the best overall collegiate athletic programs in the country, with points awarded for national finishes in NCAA sports. Cal finished with 370 points. California finished in ninth place[9] in the 2006-07 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup. With 1030.00 points, this is Cal’s highest point value in school history. California finished in sixth place[10] in the NACDA Director’s Cup standings, with points awarded for national finishes in NCAA sports. With 865.5 points, Cal’s seventh place finish is the highest in the school’s history.

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<p>[California</a> Golden Bears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Golden_Bears]California”>California Golden Bears - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Two words: the Play</p>

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“The Play”</p>

<p>One of the most famous moments in Big Game history occurred during the 85th Big Game on November 20, 1982. In what has become known as “the band play” or simply The Play, Cal scored the winning touchdown in the final seconds with a kickoff return that involved a series of laterals and the Stanford marching band rushing onto the field.

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<p>[YouTube</a> - The Play - Cal v. Stanford “enhanced”](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=BYROBfMPCso]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=BYROBfMPCso)</p>

<p>There is a hyena pack kept in the hills around Berkeley for experimental purposes.</p>

<p>There is a HUGE botanical garden on campus:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California Botanical Garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Botanical_Garden]University”>University of California Botanical Garden - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>There are 19 million fossils on campus and 80 museum collections.</p>

<p>It has amazing architecture–from classical to Gothic to modern, way prettier than Stanford’s same old Spanish Mission style:</p>

<p>[University</a> of California, Berkeley Campus Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley_Campus_Architecture]University”>Campus of the University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Hearst Greek Theater is beautiful:</p>

<p><a href=“http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/greek/jpg/greek_fromtopoflawn_2.jpg[/url]”>http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/greek/jpg/greek_fromtopoflawn_2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Weather in Berkeley is great:</p>

<p>[Berkeley</a>, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Berkeley, California - Wikipedia”>Berkeley, California - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Cal Dining is awesome. It’s won lots of awards:</p>

<p>[Cal</a> Dining About Us Awards & Affiliations](<a href=“http://caldining.berkeley.edu/awards.html]Cal”>http://caldining.berkeley.edu/awards.html)</p>

<p>Diversity is amazing. Ethnic? Sure, lots of Asians, but that includes everything from Japanese to Cambodian to Laotian. Cultural? Religious? Political? Sexual? Berkeley has it all.</p>

<p>More than 85 languages are spoken on campus.</p>

<p>Berkeley’s a major research university. If you add its research expenditures and UCSF’s (to make comparison with schools with med schools easier), and add in LBNL’s research, total research expenditures each year amount to $1.8 billion, more than any in the world.</p>

<p>61% of Berkeley’s courses are under 20 and only 14% are over 50, the exact same as MIT’s and very similar to Stanford’s (I think it’s 70%/11%). Any large class is supplemented with a small discussion session.</p>

<p>Berkeley’s grads on average make as much as Stanford’s grads–and sometimes a little more:</p>

<p>[Career</a> Center - What Can I Do With a Major In..?](<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]Career”>http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm)
[Career</a> Development Center | Student Services](<a href=“http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/salaryinfo/]Career”>http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/salaryinfo/)</p>

<p>Take a tour of Berkeley:</p>

<p>[UC</a> Berkeley Online Tour](<a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu/tour/]UC”>Home | Visitor Services)</p>

<p>Lastly, Berkeley has a very clever commercial:</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - University of California Commercial](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=anelaFYOpy0]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=anelaFYOpy0)
[url=<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=hD2144Lbqu4]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=hD2144Lbqu4]YouTube</a> - You See Berkeley<a href=“shorter”>/url</a></p>

<p>Gosh, this makes me realize how much more I want to go to Berkeley than Stanford… :[</p>

[DukeBlueDevils]

<p>welcome to the club, stanford was my dream school too. At least cal is better than stanford at football so yeah it’s got that going for it which is nice :)</p>

[anon23806243]

<p>Stanford named their tower after Herbert Hoover, one of the small number of presidents worse than current Bush.</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>Yeah, and the Campanile is actually taller (307 ft vs. 285 ft) than Stumpy the Phallic Symbol (aka Hoover Tower). ;)</p>

[misterreach]

<p>and our we have a bigger tower. no pun intended</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

<p>You don’t need a bike to get to your class on time.</p>

<p>Berkeley is also a much more livelier, student-oriented city than Stanford.</p>

<p>Stanford is a gentrified SF suburb with an expensive shopping mall.</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

<p>You can also access SF in about a half-hour via BART from Berkeley vs. over an hour via Cal Train from Stanford.</p>

[kittycat123]

<p>i love you kyledavid. </p>

<p>great stuff.</p>

[cookiemon90]

<p>cal was intelligent enough to accept you</p>

[SuperDuper_1]

<p>Bump. Stanford also rejected me and it was also my dream school, but this thread just makes me feel so much better.</p>

<p>Funny Hoover Tower Prank</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Hoover Tower Prank](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=jE5_YCrUmgo]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=jE5_YCrUmgo)</p>

<p>Cal’s Mascot is better than Stanford’s …tree.</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Oski vs Stanfurd Tree](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3XHnTX--v0&feature=related]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3XHnTX--v0&feature=related)</p>

[inconnu]

<p>[UCB</a> Octet](<a href=“http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SFPYSKHJ]UCB”>http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SFPYSKHJ)</p>

<p>:) </p>

<p>I uploaded it just for you!
…And other Bears '12 :P</p>

[cnat]

<p>Stanfurd is on a farm.
You don’t want to go to a farm, do you?</p>

[dwindlelights]

<p>Cal’s Mascot, the Golden Bear, is way better than Stanford’s sterile…tree. xD</p>

[aninvertedlove]

<p>“Stumpy the Phallic Symbol”
Lawl!</p>

[mariak89]

<p>Thanks for making this thread, I got rejected from Stanford (my DREAM DREAM school) too.</p>

<p>I feel so much better
Stanford has snobs anyway hehe</p>

[imdad]

<p>I know a lot of losers who graduated from Stanford. Is this good enough? If you don’t move on and treasure Cal…you will become a loser who did not attend Stanford-:))</p>

[bright_eyes]

<p>what a cute thread
:)</p>

[ErnieL]

<p>hey same here got rejected by Stanford but got into Berkeley. thanks for the posts. reassures me bout Berkeley as I don’t come from the US and get to see the place first hand</p>

[ErnieL]

<p>yeah thanks for making this thread… more please!!! ahahaha</p>