<p>Berkeley instead. SAD. FACE.</p>
<p>I wish i could give a smart or funny answer. But Berkeley needs to improve its undergrad education and brand name to lure stars like that. Its just the sad truth.</p>
<p>Because she attends Hogwarts.</p>
<p>^^ there you go. Tastybeef came up with a smart one.</p>
<p>Ok, fine lol. But I should have said next next movie since 6th isn’t out yet.</p>
<p>Thanks for the spoilers</p>
<p>No lie I’m disappointed. Friend goes to Columbia.</p>
<p>aww… i want emma</p>
<p>Because New York City is the best place on the planet.</p>
<p>my friend is going to columbia next fall. so jealous :(</p>
<p>I thought she is going to Brown.</p>
<p>Nobody knows where she’s going yet until she announces it herself.</p>
<p>Maybe she did, but I don’t follow that news.</p>
<p>[Life</a> after ‘Harry Potter’: Emma Watson is heading to Columbia University in the fall](<a href=“http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/29/2009-06-29_life_after_harry_potter_emma_watson_sets_her_sights_and_.html]Life”>http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/29/2009-06-29_life_after_harry_potter_emma_watson_sets_her_sights_and_.html)</p>
<p>sadface indeed :(</p>
<p>Back when the news agencies were wasting time covering whether the first daughters would go to a public or private school, they brought up the point that public schools (no matter how good or bad they are) are not a good idea for public figures as they are public and do not provide any privacy.</p>
<p>Similar logic might apply in this case.</p>
<p>BTW doesn’t she still have to do the Deathly Hollows movies (apparently they are dividing this movie into two parts)? or did they already finish all the acting?</p>
<p>Hmm yea…they still have to film that. Maybe she’ll come to berkeley for film studies masters</p>
<p>Not like it matters. They probably just take a semester off or something. I mean James Franco goes to Columbia, but he still had movies coming out.
Man if only she would come here for UG.</p>
<p>This makes me a saaaaaaad panda. :(</p>
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<p>Yet superstar athletes often times attend public schools. </p>
<p>For example, as a high school basketball player, Greg Oden twice won the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award - a feat that had previously been accomplished only by LeBron James. Oden was clearly a prominent public figure at the time, being widely touted as a future NBA lottery pick. Yet he had no problem playing for the University of Wisconsin - a public school - for a year as per the new rules of the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement that bars NBA teams from drafting players directly out of high school. He played a single year, entered the draft, and was picked #1. </p>
<p>Similarly, lots of child actors such as Jaleel White and Mayim Bialik went to UCLA - Bialik even went on to earn her PhD in neuroscience from UCLA while continuing to take on roles in Curb Your Enthusiasm and 7th Heaven. Somebody mentioned James Franco; not only did he also go to UCLA for undergrad, finishing his bachelor’s in 2008 at age 30, he was even scheduled to serve as UCLA’s commencement speaker a few weeks ago before pulling out (replaced the lead singer of Linkin Park). Hence UCLA apparently offered sufficient privacy for Franco, Bialik, and other actors for their studies.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure she’s going to Brown. I just read an article where Dan Radcliffe said it. </p>
<p>[Craig</a> McLean meets Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe | Film | The Guardian](<a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/04/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-jk-rowling]Craig”>Dan the man | Daniel Radcliffe | The Guardian)</p>
<p>Anyway, someone above said public schools were not good for public figures, and it’s mostly true. I mean, the Cal campus is open to EVERYONE. Smaller private schools can close their gates. Emma and other huge stars are known to EVERYONE. There are some royals/athletes that have attended Cal, but you probably wouldn’t know it unless someone pointed it out.</p>
<p>But Cal is hugely popular in Asia and Europe to non-celebrity people. Most of my friends in Asia equate Cal to Harvard and MIT (which are really the only well known schools over there, rarely do people hear about Columbia/Princeton/etc.) and my German friends always talk about how everyone in their school wants to go to Cal.</p>