Can someone tell me about the college Berkeley?
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Even though I **LOVE** Berkeley and I am so proud of having graduated from there, if you wanna do film --> go to UCLA. But good luck, it's not easy getting into UCLA's film dept.\n\nAlthough, if you value life experience and the company of eccentric intellectuals, go to Berkeley. You will be enlightened.
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I've only been there once, (for the January 2003 anti-war assembly in Frisco) but I must say Berkeley is well worth a visit.  The city is just north of Oakland on the east shores of the San Francisco Bay.  Much of the university is built on a hillside overlooking the bay.  There are several quaint co-op student houses on the eastern, uphill side of the campus.  \n \nBerkeley's climate is temperate and moderate all year round, with spring- and fall-like temperatures even at the peak of summer or winter.  Berkeley also gets slightly more rain than most other Bay localities.  The moisture and summer coolness allows for a somewhat greener landscape with a mix of eucalyptus/palms, conifers, and deciduous trees.  As a resident of western Oregon I felt quite at home in the mini-forest on Berkeley's hillside.  \n\nThe downtown has a lot of shops and small businesses.  There's also, from what I've been told, a ton of independent and alternative-type radio and music in the town.  Berkeley, of course, has a reputation for radical politics due to the 1960s student movements, but in reality this stereotype is overexaggerated.  The political balance is liberal but no more so than any other liberal city.  (UC Berkeley did, however, have a fairly strong chapter of the International Socialist Organization in 2002-03.)  \n\nBerkeley is well worth a visit, and I hope I get to visit again someday, but I'm not sure if I'd want to live there.  It probably is a pretty good place to live if you can afford the slightly higher rents than you'd find in Oakland (but in Oakland the culture is less enlightened and far less idealistic).  I never understood why affordable housing and leftist politics don't geographically overlap more than they do.
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you may find this link useful: \nhttp://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=1251&profileId=1
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yes, if you are not happy about that, then look for a different one. You have to do a lot of research on colleges and visit campuses. Look at the following link I sent you for some collge info, k?\n\nAnd good luck. \nhttp://www.50states.com/college/calif.htm
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I went to UCSB and had the time of my life, but I also earned a degree from a respected university.  It built its reputation as a party school and you can still party like there's no tommorow, but UCSB is ranked in the top 50 in US News Undergraduate Rankings and is one of the best schools in the country for some of its engineering departments.  \n\nBesides, do you really want to live in Stockton?  Santa Barbara will be the experience of a lifetime, and it's cheaper.  Do it....
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The professors are generally among the best in the country. Berkeley is a very pleasant city. The professors and the city are the most socially liberal in the country.
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California has a lot of wonderful colleges, and there is no "best" one, with one possibile exception that I'll talk about in a moment. Mostly, I will suggest the things you ought to consider in deciding what is best  for *you.*\n\nThe first question you should ask yourself is what kind of environment you want.  Your main question refers to the best college, and the additional information says that you are interested in going to a university here.  In the United States, "colleges" and "universities" are not exactly the same thing, even though we often use the terms interchageably.  Generally, a place that calls itself a "college" will be smaller, with only (or at least mainly) undergraduates.  Colleges offer fewer students in a class, more interaction with professors, and a more intimate environment.  Universities are larger, and California universities are often especially large. This means big classes, especially in introductory courses.  More than 100 students in a classroom can be common, and 500 is not unheard of.  But because universities have major graduate programs, they also have more research going on, and they often attract the most famous professors. And their large size can be a virtue.  What you give up in intimacy you gain in diversity.  A university with 30,000 or 40,000 students will almost certainly have groups with interests like yours, no matter what those interests are.  A college that has only, say, 1,500 or 2,000 students cannot support as many clubs, activities, and groups.  \n\nThe other major consideration is what you want to study.  Few institutions--college or university--are equally strong in all subjects.  That requires research on the particular subjects that interest you.  You might want to start by asking what are the best schools for psychology, or physics, or engineering, or business, or whatever.\n\nThird, how hard do you want to work?  Some colleges just attract students who want to spend days, nights and weekends studying.  At the opposite end, there are places where the attitude is so laid-back that weekends effectively begin on Thursday and end on Tuesday. Only you know how much energy you are prepared to invest in study time, so only you know where you fit on that spectrum.\n\nNow for my actual recommendations.  Remember that I said there was one exception to the rule that "no school is best?" If you are a science student, and if you are prepared to work your butt off, Cal Tech (the California Institute of Technology) simply cannot be beat by any other school in California, and probably not by any other school in the world.  It has world-class professors, many of whom are Nobel prize winners, plus small size (unusual for a top-rank science institution) and pleasant weather.  But Cal Tech is not for literature majors or anyone outside the sciences.\n\nBeyond Cal Tech, here are my personal recommendations as schools that I would want a child of mine to look at if they were going to school in California: \n\nLarge public colleges:  University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, and University of California at San Diego.  There are other public universities with wonderful programs in specific areas, however, and you should not limit your search to these if you want something in particular. (UC at Irvine has a program in beer and winemaking, for example, that is unique.)\n\nSmall private colleges:  The Claremont Colleges, 5 separate but related schools in and near Claremont, California.  Each has a particular focus (history and law, science, a women's school, and so forth), but each enrolls its students separately.  Also, for women, Mills College.\nLarge private university:  Stanford.  This is probably as close as any California institution comes to being all things to all students.  It is medium sized, has a world-class reasearch program, and even has highly competitive sports program, if that is signif
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Try this site:\nhttp://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorSearch.asp
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Your profile is extremely good and a good personal statement will be your ticket into both schools.\n\nIn regards to your personal essay, please: 1) do not submit what you wrote for the "college essay" assignment for your senior English class; 2) do not have your fellow students or your teachers proofread it; instead, ask your parents' coworkers or friends (preferably someone who went to UCLA or Cal), someone who doesn't know you very well to proofread it. The reason is that the essay is supposed to give the admissions officers a complete picture of who you are, what you have done, and where you want to go/how you want to get there. Only someone who doesn't know you very well can evaluate whether your essay has accomplished that.\n\nBerkeley publishes a guideline on how to write your personal statement which is applicable to all UCs: http://students.berkeley.edu/files/Admissions/Personal_State_07.pdf
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Check out US News and World Report.  They do an annual report on the best colleges and offer additional information that you may find helpful.\n\nhttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/majors/brief/major_26_brief.php
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Try to go to the website of that college; I am sure that you could chat with any body from the student association. This may be what it gets your foot in the door; once you arrive, any of them could introduce you to what you need to know.
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Stanford and UC Berkeley in California have good programs...
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Check www.petersons.com\n\nYou can search virtually every college in the world by all kinds of criteria, especially by majors available. I find it very useful. \n\nCheck out more than one, don't limit yourself to one college.
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It's a small college in the town of Knave, NC. It's on a bluff over looking Conniver Gorge. Not sure if it is an Ivy League school but I know there are several notorious people that have their degree from there. Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon,  O.J. Simpsons anger management therapist, and Willie Nelsons tax accountant to name a few.\nGood Luck
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Well, most requirements are standard, they typically vary in GPA and SAT or ACT scores\nhttp://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp
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It depends on what field you are looking for. In engineering Berkeley was rated as top university.  But I think overall Harvard is the best in the world.
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As the director of a very good graduate studies program, I can tell you that Berkeley's program has a better national (and international) reputation, although as the above person noted, UCLA's program also has some particular strengths which you might want to consider.\n\nBut all other things being equal, I would probably favor the candidate with the UC Berkeley degree over the candidate with the UCLA degree in graduate admissions.