Ash

a couple things on berkeley, or school in general.... all IMO of course...

1) Berkeley is still considered by many to be the "school of rejects" in that you go to berkeley if you didn't get into stanford, harvard, yale etc. How many people would go to berkeley if they got into one of the others? It's a public school that "ranks" up with the privates.

2) coming out of berkeley is still only a lowest common denominator sorta thing. Doesn't gaurantee you knowledge, relevant job skills, or even decency as a human. It's just a certificate meaning you maybe squeeked by with everyone else you graduated with.

3) The undergrad programs are actually deteriorating. As with many good things, people want it, but the people who want it vary more than the quality of education... so you inevitably get those who "want it" but don't put the effort in, but get by and therefore "get it" but not really... So maybe the hard part is getting in, not graduating.

So keep all that in mind. I still might go to UCB for Biz school... but then again.. if I get into Stanford, Harvard of MIT....

pll

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SuperDyu
[B]Naw, my brother did admissions for Santa Clara university for a while, the readers dont care at all what you put down for the essay ^_^*

s20001

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SuperDyu
[B]Ultimately though, just do your best and work hard, and you'll get in where you get in.

s20001

Im gonna go there for business

Im still a sophomore so I still have time to consider if Berkeley is where I want to go

hersheyjan

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pll
[B]

Same goes for Stanford.

cyber_x

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hersheyjan
[B]

I work with and even matrix-manage a few Stanford grads (undergrad) and MBA grads.

pll

You can't directly apply to Haas for your freshman year. You have to apply to the College of Letters and Science and do a rigirous two year program before you can apply to Haas. It's pretty competitive and your Berkeley grades need to be good.

See: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/ and http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/applying.html

Ash

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pll
[B]



How do you know the programs are deteriorating?

WhiteS2k

Yes it is. My daughter (who got accepted to Haas for her Junior year ) took the Accord up to Berkeley for one night last year and the window got broken and her sun-glasses stolen. That's it, for a pair of sun-glasses, someone broke the window I would never, ever, take my S2000 up there except to pick-up or drop-off.

kki3o

yea its big time rigorous, unless you start early at your local JC and start taking some of those breadth required classes..
then it would be just a TINY bit less stressful

Competiton is tough! believe meeeeeeee i know.


[QUOTE]Originally posted by pll
[B]

You can't directly apply to Haas for your freshman year.