<p>Now that I have a little more time I'll address some specific things more clearly.</p>
<p>First off, most of the dissenters on this thread have proven my points quite dramatically. I was quite clear in the beginning of the thread about the negatives and some positives I saw as well.</p>
<p>In response to that, I go an accusation that I and people who agreed with m e were "losers." In addition to that, I got called, a crazy right-winger that should have gone to Bob Jones. These are the types of opinionated, insulting people that make the Berkeley people such a bad experience. Just because someone doesn't agree with your ways doesn't make them bigoted.</p>
<p>Crime is pretty common in Berkeley, as a very urban, minority-centric area thats bound to happen. Don't blame me for being a racist; everyone knows the inner city self-selects for the trash of society.</p>
<p>There was also another response about closing the matter and locking this thread. Yet again, we have another example of the rampant type of obstructionism and censorship that goes on at this school. I merely point out things that disagree with your view of the world and you want to censor it because your mind can't deal with someone's elses opinion. </p>
<p>Berkeley is not a good experience; there are not many activities with which you can really get to know people (clubs meet like once or twice a month), and then again only the most popular clubs have anybody that goes to events. Even then, the berkeley diploma actually meant a lot less now than before, Berkeley's academic reputation has dropped significantly due to the financial crisis in California. When I first got here it was rated 4.9 out of 5 by US News. Now I believe it is around 4.5. In high school you met people everyday for 8 hours a day and there were a lot of activities that happened on a weekly or daily basis where you could also get to know people.</p>
<p>I think I'm done with this thread, It was meant as an indication of how bad UC berkeley has become, some of the points were specific to certain situations and I already noted that, no matter how many times the naysayers keep bringing it up.</p>
<p>College senior, I have faith in you, that you are smart enough to realize that some of the responses on this thread are what every single student here does.
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First off, most of the dissenters on this thread have proven my points quite dramatically.
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1= most? You could not present your arguments in such misleading language. One rude dissenter does not mean most, college senior.</p>
<p>If you're going to talk about crime, why don't you bring up statistics? Or not, you could just leave. My point is, yes, there is crime, but what you would expect from a college in an urban populace area. Your words are pretty harsh. You seem to very unaccepting and close-minded when you say "self-selects its own trash."</p>
<p>A dissenter saying to lock this thread is not an example of rampant goings ons of the school. You seem to be the one unable to deal with other people's opinions. </p>
<p>Berkeley might not be a good experience for you, but that does not make it a poor experience for everyone. The name is still great, better than most schools in the world. Sorry if it's not up to par with your high standards. If you really think there are more things at your high school than there are here, you've been looking in the wrong places.</p>
<p>College senior, you have said good things about the school once. You've never said you'd try to improve the place at all. You are now going to leave. Berkeley isn't for everyone- no place is. Hopefully this thread caused some good, caused some people who would not like it here to not come here, caused people who would not do well here to not come here. But really, you've only succeeded most in spreading partially-lies and hurting Berkeley's name. Good luck with what you do.</p>
<p>I'm not being rude, as I'm demonstrating in my posts, post after post. It is my business because what people think of you effects what people think of my future alma mater and thus, me. Please don't ignore me- listen to me. You don't have to use the same tactics that he is using. You can be better than that.</p>
<p>C'mon, you're seriously worried about what I say on a tiny little message board? You think your future bosses are going to hold it against you that you went to a school that produced a rude message board poster?</p>
<p>Erm, all I have to say about CollegeSenior's comments is that US News is crap. Much of the top 20 don't deserve to be there...like Vanderbilt. Anyway, what does it excel in? Precisely my point.</p>
<p>More to the point, I think what we are discussing here is whether or not the transfer process should continue to exist in its present form. It should. </p>
<p>You are unfairly, and without evidence, casting aspersions on the integrity of hard working students who transfer into UC Berkeley or other UCs by inferring that students who attend junior colleges are doing so to skip weeder courses that students on the freshman-admit track must take. A person works hard to overcome their high school grades so they can succeed in life and you imply bad motives to their efforts? That's pretty nasty isn't it?</p>
<p>The students I am specifically talking about here are students who, for whatever reason, do not get good enough grades in high school to be admitted to a UC campus right out of high school. Therefore, even if they wanted to attend a UC campus right out of high school they would not be able to do so. It is both illogical and unfair to accuse someone who does not qualify to get into a UC campus out of high school of trying to skip "weeder" courses at a UC campus if it is impossible for them to get into a UC campus. For your theory to work; you would have to assume that students plan to get bad grades in high school so that they can go to a junior college for the specific purpose of avoiding "weeder courses" at UC. I doubt that any students who are not interested enough to get good grades in high school are plotting and scheming to get out of "weeder courses" at UC. </p>
<p>Once again, if a student proves themselves at a junior college they should be admitted to UC. Conspiracy theories aside.</p>