<p>"Well, it depends. What is your intended major? Have you visited both campuses? Is money an issue?"</p>
<p>Intended major: History (something along the lines of this; Stanford has a spiffy major called History, Language, and the Arts where you focus on a region/country)</p>
<p>I also want to study abroad.</p>
<p>Campuses: I am in love with Berkeley. It is so ethnic, vibrant, exciting, cultural...I actually think the bums and stuff just add more spice to the mix. ;) </p>
<p>I currently live in an extremely boring residential town and hate it and want to get away from that kind of area as much as possible. When I visited Palo Alto it seemed very similar, only much much worse because people are much richer there on the average. I don't care that much about the actual campus, because I won't be living in the dorms at Berkeley. </p>
<p>Money is not an issue in that I got lots of financial aid from both schools. In fact, I got more from Stanford than Berkeley, so it'd actually be cheaper for me to go there. </p>
<p>However, church is a big issue because there's a much bigger church in Berkeley connected to the one I currently go to. And I know many more people who go there, and would thus live with them in an apartment. </p>
<p>So is Berkeley's undergraduate education that inferior to Stanford's? If I decide that church is more important to me and decide to go there, will I be cheating myself out of a much better education (and a couple thou in loans I wouldn't have to take out)? Or is it really just a prestige thing?</p>
<p>And since I'm looking into law school, how many people from Stanford, as compared to Berkeley, get into Stanford Law (now ranked 2nd in the country...:) )?</p>