<p>Hi I would like to do a academic life camparison between these two schools. </p>
<p>Which one is harder to graduate?</p>
<p>Which one is harder to get a A if majored in biology?</p>
<p>Which one is harder to get a job without going to graduate school?</p>
<p>Which one is harder to get a intern?</p>
<p>I am not very smart, worried having difficult to get a good grade.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>All these questions are very subjective. You’ll have to work hard at both schools as both are academically competitive. How much that means you will study to get an A depends on your own educational background/preparation and how quickly you pick up new material.</p>
<p>Getting am internship or a job without going to graduate school are things that happen all the time at both schools. That doesn’t differentiate much between the schools, but since Berkeley being a state school attracts most people from California who want to stay in California. People in Wellesley come from all over the world (not just CA + Asia for the most part for undergrads) and have aspirations to intern or work everywhere as well, California/the Bay area included.</p>
<p>On the graduation question, I would say it’s probably easier overall to graduate from Wellesley. I say this because the UC system, as you likely know, has been going through some financial difficulties and many students cannot get in the classes they want/need. The classes they do get into are over-subscribed and people literally sit on the floor or on the stairs in auditoriums for lectures. Because of the struggles with class choice, some students have to stay for 5 or 6 years in order to meet graduation requirements. It’s also worth noting that the class size at Berkeley is in the 100-200+ range for introductory lectures, whereas the average class size at Wellesley is around 20. That brings a very different academic and cultural setting to each school.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re posting in the Wellesley forum, it’d be nice if you learned to spell the school name correctly…</p>
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<p>In the parents’ forum, you presented yourself as a parent with a D making a choice. Are you a parent or a student? If you are not very smart, you would not have been accepted to either Cal or Wellesley. If you don’t think your D is very smart, you ought to give her a little more credit.</p>
<p>There is a large difference in structure and environment between a huge state university and a small liberal arts college. Both will be difficult in their different ways. Neither one is going to be a place for easy A’s. I’d stop thinking that way. </p>
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<p>The answer to this question depends mostly on the student’s major. For example, CS majors from any school have an easier time getting slotted into post-graduation employment than, say, history majors from any school.</p>
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