<p>Okay, I go to Berkeley, and I am amazed HOW MUCH of these damn boards are COVERED with Berkeley posts. For all you guys HATE Berkeley, it certainly gets a hell of a lot of popularity. I think its pretty astounding personally. Who's with me!</p>
<p>I think it has to do with all the Berkeley trolls. You know you shouldn't respond to them but it's so hard to let such ignorance just sit there...</p>
<p>I think everyone is jealous. C'mon, who wouldn't want to be at Cal. Great university, now with a great football team, location, weather, price...am I missing something here??</p>
<p>My guess:</p>
<p>California is one of the few states that has world-class state universities a resident can attend for low tuition. It is by far the most populous of such states,and I imagine many residents have relatively high salaries and/or significant home equity. Meaning a lot of people there, in absolute numbers and relatively speaking, can actually afford private college tuition.</p>
<p>So possibly more top students in California might reasonably want to compare their in-state options vs. going elsewhere. The answer may not always be obvious, so it's worthy of discussion.</p>
<p>People in Michigan, for one, might also have this question. But there are fewer students graduating in Michigan than in California, and maybe fewer people earn enough to be highly concerned with the private college option. So fewer CC posts on this.</p>
<p>For most of the rest of the country, the cheap state U is more obviously inferior, reputation-wise at least, to the top private colleges, so the choice is more clearly along financial lines alone and there is less to discuss.</p>
<p>Answer: CC has a LOT of Berkeley students who feel the need to promote their university needlessly and through exaggeration (perhaps inferiority complex).</p>
<p>Lots of California CCer's.</p>
<p>Most of the trolls work for a company in Vallejo that makes microphones and loudspeaker systems for stadium rock concerts and Berkeley lecture halls.</p>
<p>Do some research...you gona find tons of reasons!!!</p>
<p>Its Cheap>>></p>
<p>For those paying only in-state tuition, Berkeley probably has the highest prestige/dollar ratio of any college in the country.</p>
<p>It's because of the california public school system - they're nothing more than feeders into the UC system and Berkeley is the best school in the UCs.</p>
<p>When I was in high school, all the counselors talked about were Berkeley and UC's - they would push you to satisfy all the UC admission requirements and apply to all the UC's. The only school which they would talk about over UC's was Harvard. They knew nothing about applying elsewhere and wouldn't really take students non-UC choices seriously. In all my time in HS there was only one time they ever mentioned USC, for example, and that was because there was a representative from USC visiting.</p>