<p>Which is better? Berkley or UCLA?</p>
<p>....uhm, okay.</p>
<p>This question isn't very helpful. Instead of setting ourselves up for verbal attacks, we should ask constructive and meaningful questions. Would you like to change the question?</p>
<p>Both are very respectable schools. There is no school that is appropriate for EVERYONE. It all depends on the individual.</p>
<p>BTW- Berkeley is not spelled Berkley...</p>
<p>Stanford is better than either.</p>
<p>sorry I meant which one is more respectable, older, more elite...etc.</p>
<p>oh yes, Stanford is the best</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Anybody who doesn't know how to properly spell the name of a university is unqualified to stack it up against other universities. </p>
<p>Berkeley is PROBABLY considered a little more "respectable" by the common man, but in the academic world, UCB along with Harvard might be THE most respected university because of the top-notch faculty in every area. </p>
<p>Berkeley is older than UCLA (duh...? Berkeley is THE university of california....)</p>
<p>Although you'll find elitists at both schools, the student body as a whole is wholly anti-elitist because most students come from middle class families.</p>
<p>I think anyone who tries to rate schools like this is just a fool. If you have the talent to get into any of these schools and the money to pay for it, you should be thanking the stars. I just had 2 awesome lectures today at Berkeley. But if I had gone to Stanford, I would have gotten better lectures, right?</p>
<p>Well, the answer is incredibly obvious: UCLA (because I graduated from there.)</p>
<p>But, if you really want to get technical, then Berkeley is commonly considered a "more respectable" university. However, choosing your school solely based on name alone doesn't make you happy or a successful person. Hell, one of my fellow teachers here in Japan said he wishes he had gone to UCLA instead of Penn.</p>
<p>Why? Because it would have suited him better.</p>
<p>^don't say that... that would confuse the new high schools seniors about university rankings given to us by the godly US News, and of course, that would be the undoing of life as we know it.</p>
<p>Well, that's actually largely been my modus operandi here on CC.</p>
<p>Still, I don't want people to ignore rankings, but instead just take them for what they are.</p>