Hi everyone,
I am interested in attending UC Berkeley in the future and was wondering what their culture, attitude, and lifestyle of people are. I would also like to know some special traditions and other things in that category.
Thank you for your time!!!
It is a big school, so there will be a mix of cultures, attitudes, and lifestyles. There will, of course, be some demographic skew based on being heavily high academic achieving young people from California.
Thanks for the Response!
Any special traditions that occur?
Not hard to search for on the web:
http://www.berkeley.edu/about/traditions
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucb/traditions.html
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/traditions.html
When you say “lifestyle” what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about campus life, parties, local stuff to do?
Cal has it all, from frat parties and concerts (classical to Twenty One Pilots and beyond) to 30+ libraries, football games, llamas during RRR week, and many, many traditions (see @ucbalumnus links above). It is a liberal university, but you will find students of all political stripes there. Urban, but with a beautiful, woodsy campus.
My D is more on the studious side (not into the party scene), and she has connected with many similar people she really likes. It’s a big, big school, but you can carve out a smaller world for yourself, through classes, dorms, clubs, activities, etc. Whatever your tribe is (or whatever you wish it to be), Cal has it.
Note that college students generally tend to lean left politically, due to younger age (even older nontraditional college students tend to be younger than the overall adult population). The left lean is somewhat greater at many schools in California due to demographics (e.g. only about a quarter of Berkeley undergraduates are white).
pretty much
@ucbalumnus I wasn’t aware that skin tone denoted political affiliation.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160373/democrats-racially-diverse-republicans-mostly-white.aspx
http://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-among-voters-1992-2016/
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/19/racial-diversity-eludes-republican-party-2012-versus-2016/
In any case,
I don’t think that UCBerkeley subscribes to the liberal attitude that the city has. UC Berkeley has a lot of immigrants from a lot of different backgrounds.