<p>There are definitely Indians, as well as some great (and some average to eh) Indian food.</p>
<p>Asians are cool. East Asian and Indian people. Has anyone seen Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle? Freaking Amazing movie. "Extreme!!"</p>
<p>Visali-
About safety- I wouldn't walk around Berkeley (the campus or the area around campus) at night by myself. But if you're in a group of two or three, that's usually fine, but there are alot of homeless sleeping under trees or walking around.
For the College of Chemistry (Chem, ChemE, ChemBio majors) freshman orientation there were 200-300 students and maybe 25 were non asian. There were a few Indians, but mainly Chinese, Japanese, etc. Out of those (aprox) 25, there were 5 or 6 white girls. I noticed because there was practically no diversity, which I thought was unusual, especially for a place like Cal, where "diversity" (in the student body- ethnically and socioeconomically) is widely talked about.</p>
<p>Well, it's kinda dumb to walk around at night anywhere anyways.</p>
<p>If you have no choice but to walk alone, use 642-WALK.</p>
<p>Harold went to Berkeley. Or was it Kumar? The Asian one who is not Indian went to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I think that at night most of the homeless are sleeping, but some are asking for money.</p>
<p>Certain colleges within the college seem to attract certain groups. Chemistry and asians, for example.</p>
<p>I am out of state. I'll try to take Math IIc and Chemistry. I have a good GPA, but my ACT/SAT scores aren't that good. I wish I could have went on college visits, but I didn't. I can't now because of school. Hopefully, I'll go see the colleges that accept me and decide if I should attend or not. </p>
<p>Everyone, thank you so much for all the information. Thanks for telling me about berkeley, about diversity, and about how important college visits are. I highly doubt I will be able to change my parent's mind, but I hope I'll find the right college for me in the end. :D I'll apply to Berkeley, and hopefully, I'll get accepted.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Visali,
My son is in state and did miserably on the SAT's, took the ACT and without any prep scored very high on it. Cal is not always numbers oriented. Your resume and essay are important too.</p>
<p>I think that the only thing I'm lacking is my ACT score. I got a 25, and I need to bring that score up fast! I'm applying Regular Action for all the schools so that I won't have to worry about going against a college's policy. So, I guess I do have time. I'm still worried colleges will look at my ACT more than my GPA, which is 3.87. Hopefully, everything will turn out well. :)</p>
<p>"Cal is not always numbers oriented. Your resume and essay are important too."</p>
<p>NICE</p>
<p>My daughter and I visited Berkeley in July and she loved the campus. My only concern is what I've heard about many huge classes, up to 700 students. Also I checked the online schedule of classes and there were long waiting lists for many of the smaller classes such as Spanish and Hindi.</p>
<p>How many of your classes have been large? How large are we talking? Have you had problems getting into the classes you wanted? Thanks!</p>
<p>If you search these boards you'll see that Cal's class sizes are roughly the same (slightly bigger) than Harvard, Stanford or Cornell's.</p>
<p>I think SnuggleMonster is referring to this commonly cited statistic:</p>
<p>Berkeley:</p>
<p>Classes under 30: 74%
Classes over 100: 7%</p>
<p>Stanford:</p>
<p>Classes under 30: 79%
Classes over 100: 5%</p>
<p>As you can see, all universities have a number of large intro classes, with mostly smaller classes, and Berkeley is no exception. :)</p>
<p>julialove, my son says his chemistry and calculus classes are large, around 300for the lectures, less than 20 for the chem lab and calculus meets with less than 30 for a discussion group. His other classes are less than 35. He had no problems with wait lists.</p>