<p>Stanford hardly is worth $100,000 more than Berkeley. Especially for an UNDERGRADUATE degree.</p>
<p>Go to Stanford!!! Nicer campus and more well known internationally. Well, Berkeley is also well known internationally, but it's not considered in the elite group. And also, William Hung had something to do with Berkeley's international reputation. =)</p>
<p>If there was no $100k, I'd surely go for Stanford. But the $100k reward makes me want to choose Berkeley over Stanford (or any school anywhere on earth!) A Berkeley degree + 100k is hard to refuse.</p>
<p>Both my parents went to Stanford but I remember them telling me to go where I want to go. Never had I heard them pushing me to go to Stanford.</p>
<p>disagree with sakky & kd: Stanford's (infamous) grade inflation is worth the $100k. :D</p>
<p>PS: the other thing $100k buys you is legacy status 20+ years hence. (I frequently kick myself for turning down on of HYPSM for grad school back in the dark ages.) The current trend for the UC's is down, down, down, and the Regents will continue to try to dumb-down the system, and in particularl Cal, so the Regents prove that their investment in Merced was 'brilliant'.</p>
<p>I say go to Stanford.. prestige does care... i mean if ur the manager of a business and it came down to two employees one from berkley and one from stanford if they have equally standards educatioon which one will u choose ? think about it ! Stanford right ?
I say go with Stanford and then u can finish grad. in Berkley if u want but as of right now.. Trust me Stanford is the right choice</p>
<p>Btw these are my two dream universities i hope i get accepeted into one of them i hope u can help me :)</p>
<p>Personally, I would forget about the $100,000---and make the choice based on which school YOU feel will provide you the education/the experience/the contacts you want in your life. Period. It may be that your parents are making this offer to teach you something about life-for life is about the choices we make.G'luck!</p>
<p>Why do people like digging up dead corpses? </p>
<p>This thread has been dead for more than half a year. The OP has by now: </p>
<p>1). Gone to Berkeley
2). Gone to Stanford
3). Rethought the whole thing over and gone to a different school
4). Dropped out/arrested/indicted under the RICO Act.
5). Dead...</p>
<p>I vote for #5</p>
<p>Age 18 was decades ago for me. Accepted to Berkeley, Stanford, and Yale. Not nearly enough money to attend a private school and for years felt like I had missed out on something by going to Cal. Been working as a physician for over twenty years. Turns out no one even cares where I went to college (or medical school for that matter). People care a whole lot more about what kind of person I turned out to be. Do I listen? Do I have empathy? Do I follow through and provide the type of care I would want for myself or a loved one? My advice to this person: go to Berkeley. Use some of the 100K to pay off any future educational debt or put a down payment on a house. Donate a lot to charity. Don't be an academic snob. There are so many things in life that matter much much more than your alma mater.</p>
<p>The University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University are both fantastic schools. The international prestige and global reputation that they receive are absolutely staggering. Trying to decide which university is better in terms of prestige, academic reputation, or future career prospects, is similar to splitting hair.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley undergraduate students upon graduation go to various companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Wells Fargo Bank, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Chevron Corporation, and Amazon.com. Stanford undergraduate students go to JP Morgan Chase, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte Consulting, McKinsey, and IBM. Many students receive top executive and managerial positions after working for 5 years or more. This is probably due to the fact that Stanford and Berkeley students are very apt and successful employees.</p>
<p>It is pretty clear that employers look favorably on students from both universities. After all, which universities built the Silicon Valley? (Ans: Berkeley and Stanford)</p>
<p>Old thread :)</p>
<p>Wow, its another spoiled college brat who doesn’t ever pay for anything in his life. Good thing I have to pay for my own way through college. If it is anything that kids won’t learn while there are in college when their parents pay for everything and giving them money on top of that, its that life isn’t free and you won’t learn the valve of an honest day’s hard work for a free ride. These people make me sick</p>