<p>Any difference in student teacher ratio between UCSD and Berkeley? Also, which do you think has a more friendly, accepting campus? (Concerned parent here of asperger's student).</p>
<p>The college system at UCSD is nice, which might be supportive. However, in general, I'd have to think that Berkeley is more accepting of diversity of all kinds. Certainly if the kid is going to be in engineering or computer science or math or whatever, I'd have to go with Berkeley.</p>
<p>for the lower division science/math classes, the student professor ratio is about 200~500 to 1. for the discussion sections, the student gsi ratio is about 20~40 to 1. i heard it is about the same at ucsd.</p>
<p>Berkeley will be more supportive. If you have the documentation, your child will be able to get not only tutoring help from the Learning Center, but one-on-one tutoring if requested, a notetaker, and lots of additional help from Lucie in the "Cave" as it's called. The big classes have small discussion groups, averaging around 25 students, with the GSI having plenty of office hours (as well as the professor) to go over material one on one. Plus, if in the DSP, your child will also get early enrollment (generally following the first semester), so that he or she will get to enroll first day, making the process much less stressful. Finally, there are great freshman seminars that help the disabilities student meet others like him or her, he/she will have a mentor help navigate the first year, and that class has a max of 15 students. Great program and very friendly and accepting.</p>
<p>THANK YOU for your help. We now have to wait to see if he's accpeted (April 30th for transfers) but this definitely helps us in the decision process. Plus, he loves the bay area. Thanks again.</p>
<p>You're welcome. </p>
<p>While you're waiting, check out:
Disabled</a> Students' Program</p>
<p>It gives lots of info. on what they have to offer, but I'm telling you, it's way more than what they list. If your student gets accepted, call dsp (with your child) to set up an appointment to meet and make sure you get the documentation in on time (although they are pretty flexible, it just makes their life a lot easier to have it sooner rather than later!). They'll meet with parents and student IF the student agrees and signs a waiver, and will ease all of your concerns. They check in with the student, and make sure they're managing their time; have drop in appts. when the student hits a wall or gets confused or upset about things; they coordinate with the TANG center to get psychological and therapy services if needed, but they're pretty good at making sure both student and parent are in their comfort zone. And the Cal students are very very forgiving and nice. There's a lot of really unique people at Cal, in a good positive way.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
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<p>This is the point I was trying to make.</p>