<p>@emilylam852 I hope you don’t take any part of Ravous’s post seriously, as it’s absolutely ridiculous.</p>
<p>CAL for Undergrad and UCLA for grad school. How is that? By the way, I noticed that it is now more difficult to get admitted to UCLA than CAL percentage wise. Anyway, just let one of them take me, and I will be thrilled. We are so lucky to live here!</p>
<p>@Ravous
Cut throat Hippies? Oh my gawd that made me laugh, love these posts! California is filled with funny and unique people. As is the world, I guess. be we have the UC system!</p>
<p>@Delapidatedmind
As usual, you always have the best plan.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure competition at both schools is fierce, so saying Cal is full of cutthroat hippies is true, but it is also true that UCLA has a good number of cutthroat students as well. </p>
<p>I think I would have to think about which school I would want to go to… Cal, on one hand, seems to be full of dorky and geeky people, while UCLA seems to have a more laid-back, chill population. I am worried about the rain too, being a SoCal person, but Cal… cmon, it’s UC Berkeley! I think I would choose Berkeley mainly to get away from home and experience life on my own and prepare myself for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>@tredelta : no I don’t. I respect everyone’s opinion tho. cal absolutely has the most interesting and inspiring people. I’ll be lucky to go there. I love the atmosphere in Berkeley, how students all have their unique personality and background. Diversity is what I like. </p>
<p>@Northbeach : that sounds like a prefect plan but unfortunately I have family business to handle after my undergrad career, I will have to move back to my birth country . So there is no grad school opportunity for me in the near future.</p>
<p>LA all da way!</p>
<p>@northbeach: yea, I know what you mean by it’s harder to get accepted in UCLA. From what I researched, Berkeley weighted heavily on the personal statement and the ECs. I know people who have lower GPA but with a killer essay still get in to Berkeley but not UCLA. But I guess it’s all depends on the major. For my major say, IDS is highly impacted in UCLA, not so much in Berkeley. It seems like GPA weights more in UCLA than Berkeley. Well of course I don’t know for sure.</p>
<p>UCLA, for sure.</p>
<p>I’m an art major and I hear that the art department is basically non-existent at cal which is actually sad because it is cultural hub, i think the school would benefit immensely from having a reputable art program…i only applied in case i didn’t get into ucla and didn’t feel like attending irvine. berkeley is beautiful and i love norcal.</p>
<p>@EmilyIam this
where is your home country? UCLA was around 20 percent admission for last year, i think, while CAL was at 21 percent. but for me it is really how many CCC students they admit. always higher than over all admissions. but still tough to get in any way you slice it.</p>
<p>by the way, this is a very interesting thread. and coming from years of working in the public sphere, i just chuckle at the mere idea of “cutthroat” students. students are all lightweights, though adorable, compared to the industry sharks i work with. student “cutthroats” brings to mind cute little bunnies wielding sabers and prancing about. innocuous to say the least. but i will plan to name my next rock band “The Cutthroat Hippies” that is just too precious.</p>
<p>You’re from Socal, you gotta go with UCLA!! Go Bruins!!</p>
<p>haha. my dad went to CAL and Stanford and when UCSC accepted me he said, “Oh, that’s great! They have the banana slug as their mascot. Most superb, most superb, even the jocks voted for it.” and he was serious. I love my dad, he is so cool. I replied, “I am not going to the Slug school dad, I will go to UCSB if I don’t get into CAL or UCLA.” He said, “Oh really? That is too bad, you know I really like those banana slugs.”</p>
<p>I’d choose Cal over UCLA, and not just because of my major (business).</p>
<p>I want to work in tech, and Cal has much greater access to Silicon Valley jobs. When I worked at a tech startup recently, I noticed that basically everyone who had the jobs I want were ivy/Berkeley/MIT/prestigious b-school. I met few successful UCLA people.</p>
<p>Also, you’ll probably have to compete with the cutthroat Berkeley kids in the job market anyway, might as well know what you’re up against and get used to it so that you’re ready when it really counts.</p>
<p>I am still so undecided! </p>
<p>Cal and UCLA both have great art history programs (my major), and access to many wonderful museums, for internship opportunities and the like.</p>
<p>They both have absolutely different feels. One feels much more polished and urban, while the other feels a little more rustic and isolated. </p>
<p>I have been living in so-cal for the last 5 or so years, so I am quite familiar with LA and the culture in the surrounding area. I am a little sick of the materialistic and shallow attitudes of the people here (VERY different that my hometown of Minneapolis!), the city I live in is especially known for shallow and snobby people. On the other hand, the weather is always nice, and everything is so clean and perfect looking. It’d be nice to come home on the weekends too if I went to LA…</p>
<p>But I really love Berkeley also…The people seem much friendlier in the bay area to me. I also love the atmosphere of SF and Berkeley, it reminds me a lot of my home state - Minnesota.</p>
<p>I think I am leaning towards Berkeley though…and I think I will go there unless I get accepted as a regent’s scholar at UCLA…then I might change my mind!</p>
<p>What are people referring to when they say retaking classes at CAL that they’ve already taken at CC? please explain…</p>
<p>@Houseofatreus</p>
<p>You’re from Minneapolis? That’s so cool. I was going to attend the Carlson School of Management at UMN, but instead I chose to come out here.</p>
<p>@UCLAProspect </p>
<p>The Carlson School is a great school! That is where my dad got his MBA — I was thinking about going to U of M’s CLA as a transfer this year but I think the programs for art history are much better at UCB or LA. Are you going for Biz Econ at UCLA? Good luck!</p>
<p>@Houseofatreus</p>
<p>Im actually not going for bizecon since the gpa requirement is extremely high. My GPA is only 3.7</p>
<p>@northbeach : I’m from HongKong. It’s a very urbanized city but too crowded. Your dad seems very cool. </p>
<p>@HouseofA: if I were an art major , I think i will choose UCLA over cal because LA is center of everything. I’ll have more chances to attend different event and mixer. And it is also very close to LACMA so I will be able to go to their shows all the time. Like you. Im so sick of the sallow and materialistic people in LA; (some but not all) I’m from LA too.</p>
<p>@rca2446</p>
<p>I think you’re referring to Salmos’s post.</p>
<p>In that case, he was talking about Philosophy majors. Last I heard, there are maybe only three CCCs that offer philosophy courses that articulate to Cal. So, for the admitted Phil. major, people like him, like me, who’ve taken six, seven, eight philosophy courses, still have to take all the major prereqs after transferring; it’s, in a word, lame, which is why I plan on switching to English if I’m admitted: As a Phil. major, I have more English prereqs completed for Cal than for the major I applied as.</p>
<p>Berkeley! best public school in the world</p>
<p>@Emily
hong kong! wonderful. great that you are here in california attending school. yeah, my papa is incredibly cool. much cooler than us kids. that’s why he was admitted to stanford and berkeley. haha. alas, it does not help his children, we get no special treatment even though three generations of my family attended UC Berkeley. and my grandmother built the performance arts department at UC Irvine. still, i have to apply like all the other public school kids to these great schools and hope to get in. i love it that the schools accept kids from hong kong, like you, and europe. even if i have to give up my spot for a kid from overseas, it is worth it! because we learn nothing if we do not talk to our neighbors in foreigns lands. i hope to see you next semester. welcome welcome to america!</p>