Current Events > Compare Stanford with UC Berkley with Caltech.

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Two of those are great schools, the other one is a joke.
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In what ways? They are all good schools. Caltech is amazing if you are into STEM. Stanford is probably the biggest name brand in universities right now, which is a big plus for credentials, especially if you are good at meeting people/getting internships. Stanford is particularly good if you want to go into academics/research because they get a metric f*ton of funding. UC Berkley is probably the next tier down but still a good name school if you can get into it (I'd say there are maybe 25ish universities where the name of the school matters to employers, and all 3 are on it, though UC is probably a bit lower on it). You'd be fortunately to get into any of them. If you had to choose, thats where location and culture fit matters. UC is very liberal and a hippie sort of vibe, Stanford is more conservative and urban in feel. Caltech is if you don't want to date at all and want to focus on your studies.
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Berkeley is gonna leave a bad taste in the mouth of future employers if they don't like them there libs
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i went to uc berkeley

horrible school

- average class size is 400 people big
- intro CS classes are 1k people big
- impossible to speak with professors
- discussions are led by undergrads
- everyone is always studying and doesn't want to do anything fun
- majority of student body are fobby asians (felt like i was going to school in china)
- disgusting piece of shit city with homeless everywhere
- didn't even feel like a real college
- tons of stuck up arrogant pricks who lie about their grades, and lie about barely studying to get an A even tho they locked themselves up in the library for a week
- everyone self segregates by race. Walk through sproul plaza and all you see are asian student union, black student union, muslim student union, indian student union, etc. Hell there's even a mixed student union.
- housing is archaic and decrepit and costs a shit ton
- restaurant prices average ~$10/meal

I can go on and on.

horrible school. Wish I never went. Place was legit cancer and fucked up my brain. Degree from there doesn't mean shit. As a software engineer, most software engineers don't even come from top schools like this. No one wants to work with the arrogant douchebags that schools like these produce.
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