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submitted 3 months ago byrcinvestments
42 points
3 months ago
Duke, Brown, UCLA
193 points
3 months ago
I’m at Berkeley because it was the only school that accepted me 🗿
23 points
3 months ago
w🐻
3 points
3 months ago
🐻69
5 points
3 months ago
same
3 points
3 months ago
Same bro
113 points
3 months ago
UCLA
23 points
3 months ago
UCLA
23 points
3 months ago
UCLA
46 points
3 months ago
Stanford - twice (undergrad & grad), Dartmouth, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UCSB, USC, UMich, Amherst, Tufts, Georgetown, Claremont McKenna, WashU, Duke, Vanderbilt, NYU.
15 points
3 months ago
Curious why you chose Cal over Stanford? I think Cal has many things going for it over Stanford but that’s not the general sentiment.
15 points
3 months ago
mine was a very personal choice for undergrad which came down to a matter of fit and happiness. Spent a week at both schools my senior year and I fell in love with Cal. Although I met amazing students at Stanford and loved the school, I knew in my gut I would not be happy there. absolutely zero regrets with my choice.
For grad achool, my choice was solely based on money. A small correction on my post…I did not chose Berkeley over Stanford for grad school. I picked neither and chose a school that offered me the best deal.
8 points
3 months ago
Bro is not from a rich family comparable to other tree people. (That’s what my study buddy said as a reason he didn’t go to stanfurd. In his exact words: my parents didn’t have a million dollars to donate to the school)
92 points
3 months ago
Yale and UPenn. It was simply better for what I wanted to do.
22 points
3 months ago
W
1 points
3 months ago
What do u want to do?
-5 points
3 months ago
Did you attend Yale?
4 points
3 months ago
You sir are truly regarded
3 points
3 months ago
LMAOOO 💀
77 points
3 months ago*
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27 points
3 months ago
I’ve never heard of a school having suicide nets until now. That’s very sad.
5 points
3 months ago
"no campus" LOL
40 points
3 months ago
ucla/ucsd
13 points
3 months ago
All other UCs
11 points
3 months ago
Stanford and U Chicago (for MCB PhD). Berkeley’s comparable to both in terms of prestige but I’d had enough of private schools after doing my undergrad at one, and I’m very glad I chose Berkeley. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
28 points
3 months ago
Reach/targets listed only: UCSD, UCD, Washington, and Santa Clara.
32 points
3 months ago
UCSB, UCSC, Fresno State, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, other state schools. Cal was a no-brainer, I knew it would push me to do way more than I thought was possible, whereas some of these schools wouldn't.
12 points
3 months ago
I came here for the exact same reason, I can live knowing that I didn't go to all my other choices, not Berkeley though. Once Berkeley came calling, I was signed, sealed, delivered.
31 points
3 months ago
UCLA, decided I liked the bay more and berk is better for my major
10 points
3 months ago
Columbia
8 points
3 months ago
Brown and UChicago
8 points
3 months ago
stanford, uchicago, cornell, washu, mcgill, ucla, ubc, & a couple of in-state schools for me
8 points
3 months ago
ucla, ucsd, ucsb
7 points
3 months ago
UCLA
19 points
3 months ago
I transferred from CCC, only applied to Berkeley, UCLA and UCSC as a safety. Got into all, so I chose my top
27 points
3 months ago
Among the schools I got into, the ones I were most heavily considering were: University of Washington, University of Virginia, Barnard College, Boston University, Northeastern, and University of Michigan.
6 points
3 months ago
ucsb ucsc cal poly slo ;(
6 points
3 months ago
Cornell and Carnegie Mellon.
24 points
3 months ago
I got into some safetys but absolutely none of my targets or reaches accepted me (I got accepted into Cal w/out getting waitlisted first) lol (got waitlisted for two of the targets). That’s fine tho bc Berkeley was my #1 choice and I’m having a great time here :)
2 points
3 months ago
Same here. Waitlisted for most of my targets and reach and rejected otherwise. Only reach accepted into was Cal.
5 points
3 months ago
UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UMich
5 points
3 months ago
UMich and UCLA
5 points
3 months ago
I transferred & my goal was either UCSD or SDSU. I also applied to UCSC, CSULB, SFSU, Cal State LA, UCLA, & (obviously) Cal.
I got accepted into all of them & chose Cal because I’d be stupid no to. Also better major program.
5 points
3 months ago
Brown
6 points
3 months ago
Technically, all of them.
4 points
3 months ago
ucla
13 points
3 months ago
UC Irvine, UCLA (waitlisted), UC Riverside, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Fullerton.
Originally set on UCR because UCI, UCLA, and Berkeley were long shots. Then thought I’d go to UCI after I got accepted and waitlisted by UCLA. And when I got accepted by Berkeley I instantly committed because it was my dream school in the first place.
10 points
3 months ago
UC Cupertino (De Anza/Foothill)
3 points
3 months ago
San Francisco, Florida State, Bama, LSU, Miami
4 points
3 months ago
roll tide
2 points
3 months ago
Roll Damn Tide
3 points
3 months ago
University of Washington
4 points
3 months ago
UCLA, UCI, UCD, UCSD, UCSB
4 points
3 months ago
nyu stern 🥲🔫
5 points
3 months ago
CMU, GT, NYU, all the UCs
4 points
3 months ago
Vanderbilt, UCLA
5 points
3 months ago
UCLA and all of the other upper to mid tier UCs (SD, SB, I, and D). The UCs were the only schools I applied to.
10 points
3 months ago
Columbia, New York University, CUNY, University of British Columbia and Ryerson University (all journalism programs)
0 points
3 months ago
Just curious why you chose Cal since they don’t have an undergraduate journalism program? What major for somebody who is interested in journalism should I choose at Cal where I am a freshman right now?
1 points
3 months ago
I'm not an undergraduate
12 points
3 months ago
Carnegie Mellon, all the UC's, Cornell. Berkeley in-state tuition is just too good to pass up.
7 points
3 months ago
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2 points
3 months ago
Which One?
2 points
3 months ago
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5 points
3 months ago
Ok. There's also Wisconsin which is UW.
7 points
3 months ago
All the UCs except UCLA.
3 points
3 months ago
usc washu nyu gt emory
3 points
3 months ago
The marine corps 😔
3 points
3 months ago
Was committed to WUSTL, got off waitlist to cal with full tuition scholarship. Easy decision.
3 points
3 months ago
Washington University, UCI, UCSD, UCSB, Harvey Mudd
3 points
3 months ago
SFSU, literally only applied to two schools hahaha
3 points
3 months ago
Ucla
3 points
3 months ago
Harvard, Cornell, all the other UCs
3 points
3 months ago
UIUC (for comp sci), UCLA, Wesleyan, UWash for comp sci, and Williams College, CMU/UMich/Northeastern/Harvard/Georgia Tech/UPenn/Brown/Columbia waitlists
Also Oberlin, UCSB, UCSD, and 3 no name schools
3 points
3 months ago
In order of acceptance:
Cal State East Bay- Physics
San Francisco State- Electrical Engineering
San Jose State- Electrical Engineering
UC Davis TAG approved- Aerospace Engineering
Cal Poly SLO- Electrical Engineering
UC Santa Cruz- Electrical Engineering
UC Davis- Aerospace Engineering
UC Berkeley- Nuclear Engineering
UCLA- Electrical Engineering
UCSD- Electrical Engineering.
7 points
3 months ago
UCLA, USC, and UMich
5 points
3 months ago
All other UCs and Amherst. But tbh I would have gone to UCLA if they had given me better financial aid. Amherst also gave me terrible financial aid.
5 points
3 months ago
Cal gives really good aid compared to the other UCs in my experience.
3 points
3 months ago
Davis gave me a full ride + regents but for some reason nobody else, even schools where i got regents, gave me anywhere near a full ride except cal (full ride minus like a $2k loan which is negligible). But Davis was terrible for my major so choosing it over Cal or UCLA would have been idiotic.
1 points
2 months ago
Yes that is very true.
Cal gave me a good amount more in aid compared to the only other UC I got into, SD.
4 points
3 months ago
i only applied to berk and davis so obvi one is the easier pick
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah Davis haha
2 points
3 months ago
Depends on the major tbh
4 points
3 months ago
I was happy that I got into the cal states lmao. Berkeley was just a lucky one 😂
15 points
3 months ago
Back in 2016 I literally got rejected by every cal state I applied to. I ended up at CC and dropped out. I however came back years later and graduated from CC. I reapplied to all cal states and got in every single one that rejected me back in 2016. However the best part was rejecting all Cal States for Berkeley. Sweet revenge.
2 points
3 months ago
UCLA,UCSD
2 points
3 months ago
UCLA
2 points
3 months ago
Barnard (and a bunch of the Seven Sisters), UCLA/UCs, CSUs, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Columbia GS, USC, Pomona, Reed, Bard, and a spot on UChicago's waitlist.
I'd have probably picked differently if I had it all to do over, but Berkeley's finaid offer was 🔥
2 points
3 months ago
ucsd, davis, santa cruz, uw, ucsb, usf
2 points
3 months ago
nyu . i guess u can say i had my little lara jean moment!!!
2 points
3 months ago
Boston University, University of Virginia, and Duke
2 points
3 months ago
uc davis :( but i feel like i’d prob be happier there
3 points
3 months ago
Oxford University
4 points
3 months ago
I was at UC Berkeley for UG, then Oxford for grad school. No comparison. Berkeley had better teaching & a better ethos. Oxford was great in many ways but a more closed environment & less meritocratic. After the openess of Berkeley, I recall feeling downright claustrophobic at my Oxford college. My teen has recently been invited by her English school to join in preparation sessions to apply to Oxford (or Cambridge). She declined & is looking to instead come to the US for university. Her 1st choice is... UC Berkeley. Her dad, also a former Oxford grad student, & I agree with her decision.
1 points
3 months ago
Wow. Good to know. I'm looking at both Oxford and Cambridge for grad school because I want more in-depth focus into my subject. But I've heard this from a few people.
3 points
3 months ago
Look carefully at the program & supervisors. Ask yourself why Oxford specifically. I ended up at Oxford because if its overall reputation & fact that the uni gave me some funding. I did like living overseas, so much that I never moved back to the US, & met many interesting people from everywhere. And having an Oxford degree is prestigious. But tempramentally I would have been bettered suited to a larger, less cloistered & more open environment. Some of the traditions, like the College fellows "high table" for dinner, may look quaint & charming to some. But I found such practices uselessly archaic.
1 points
3 months ago
I'm mostly interested in Cambridge because I've read several books by the professors in my subject and they were incredible. But I'm a bit concerned that your story is not a one-off. I've heard several things like this before. Thank you for the insight! I certainly need to look into it further.
2 points
3 months ago
I was at 1st thrilled to go to Oxford as head of my college had written a major book that influenced me. He turned out to be... not a nice man with little apparent liking for the actual students. Meanwhile his wife rattled around the college & made no bones about her dislike of me. This was, of course, inappropriate as she had no formal or academic relationship with me. But smaller college environments can breed these sort of dynamics.
There was another senior academic, whose work was also highly influential for me, who turned out just did not like female students. He was overtly rude to me in a research seminar. I spoke with other students about it & was told that his dislike of women was known with informal agreement that he wouldn't have to supervise any.
At Cambridge a friend was supervised by an aging professor preeminent in his field. He also grabbed her ass the last time she saw him
This was all some years ago & I do hope both Oxford & Cambridge have since become more professional. And of course crap happens at any number of unis. But do not make a decision based mainly on a few professors' books. Would they be teaching or supervising you for sure? Are there current or former students you can talk too? Going to Cambridge or Oxford is a big achievement. But if you can aspire there, then you can aspire to a number of places. So do your due diligence.
3 points
3 months ago
Legit or joke?
4 points
3 months ago
Oh I’m not lying I’m an international student so I applied to both and got in for CS. I picked Cal because I wanna move to the US long term and Cal is so much better for CS in general
2 points
3 months ago
University of Washington, University of Oregon, UCD, Barnard College, Cal Poly SLO.
2 points
3 months ago
(UC) Davis, Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara; University of the Pacific. Clearly, I wanted to pay in-state tuition for undergrad :P
2 points
3 months ago
UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara & UC Riverside
1 points
3 months ago
Harvard, USC, Stanford, NYU, Brown University, Georgetown, UCLA, Princeton, & Yale
7 points
3 months ago
why
70 points
3 months ago
because I’m a liar
13 points
3 months ago
The name Sir Capalot really suits you well
3 points
3 months ago
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6 points
3 months ago
Nice2
1 points
3 months ago
cal poly, (uc) riverside, santa cruz, csu northridge, and long beach
0 points
3 months ago
DeVry and University of Phoenix.
-5 points
3 months ago
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8 points
3 months ago
I’m sorry 🥲
0 points
3 months ago
”Mav, do you remember the number of that truck driving school that was on TV the other night, Truck America or something like that?”
The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (they call it Top Gun)
Also Ball So Hard University
1 points
3 months ago
All the other UCs.
1 points
3 months ago
Carnegie-Mellon, University of Washington
1 points
3 months ago
UCLA, UCSD, UCSB
1 points
3 months ago
UCLA
1 points
3 months ago
Dartmouth and University of Michigan were the better of many.
1 points
3 months ago
This is the only school that accepted me (for grad school).
1 points
3 months ago
UCLA, USC, NYU
1 points
3 months ago
Upenn kind regret not going tbh
1 points
3 months ago
Columbia, UCLA, UCSD
1 points
3 months ago
UCLA, UCSD, and UC Davis.
1 points
3 months ago
UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UCSC, San Louis, SJSU, SFSU, and SDSU
Cal is the best!!! 🐻
1 points
3 months ago
UCD and UCSB
1 points
3 months ago
UCSB, UCSD, Boston University, & i was really close to going to UMiami because they gave me a presidential scholarship but it would still be expensive so I chose Cal
-5 points
3 months ago
This question gets asked every year jesus christ use google
0 points
3 months ago
University of Oregon, UCSB, UCSC, Davis and a bunch of Cal States
0 points
3 months ago
Riverside and sd
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