US News rankings are meaningless-from mathematics student.

[UCBChemEGrad]

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Again, how do 4 years at Stanford compare to say … the lodging possibilities in Berkeley?

Idyllic country club vs. dynamic urban environment.
If you live at Clark Kerr you may think it’s 'furd. Berkeley has variety.</p>

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As far as quality of education, that is something that might be in the eye of the beholder as some do not seem to have a problem with schools that are academic factories that rely on massive number of graduate students to shore up the reduced teaching performance and loads of a faculty whose focus is more researching than teaching.

Stanford uses TAs in the exact same way…all research universities do.</p>