What do people think about UC Berkeley and Cal Athletics?
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Stanfurd SUCKS! Cal has the AXE! Cal will keep the axe! Big Game is OURS!!!\n\nThe rugby team is AWESOME. Basketball team has seen better days, but they will have a comeback soon, I just know it! Swimming was great when I was there (thanks to Natalie Coughlin).\n\nGO BEARS! http://calbears.cstv.com/
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I will assume you are a bit above average student...\n\nForget Nevada completely if you will reject UNLV and UNR.\n\nYou seem to be the perfect candidate to go to University of California-Santa Cruz since it is academic, mostly without sports, and has no greek system. The other close options for you would be UC Irvine (not into sports, mild greek, and decent academics) and UC Davis (huge in women's sports, small greek, but great academics). Under your description avoid: UCSD, UCSB, and any state school. You may want to gamble with UC Merced, but the prestige they'll have is unknown.\n\nIn Washington your only option is University of Washington, and in oregon, I highly suggest the University of Oregon for you since it fits under your description.\n\nIf you are a high ranking student, I suggest you Apply to Cal Tech, Berkeley, and Stanford. USC appears to be a good school, but it is heavily into sports, decent greek, and it is located in the ghetto. UCLA has the same problems as USC.\n\nHope this helps.
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the character is fictional.  The university is thought to be a fictionalized version of the University of California, Berkeley, but the story and characters are ficiton.
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If you are referring to Cal State University, in my opinion the best one is San Luis Obispo. Its even harder to get into than some UC's.
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De La Salle is consistently one of the highest ranked CA high school teams.  They sound like they would be a good matchup.
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university of california
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UCI\n\nuniversity of california irvine\n\n\nI heard it's a pretty good college for doctors and people interested in medicine
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Hopefully you are around northern California, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis have excellent teams.
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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 doubt if any of them do.\n\nBut you are asking the wrong question.  Your question should be "What colleges in California (or elsewhere) offer a major that is appropriate for someone who wants to design video games?"\n\nThe answer to that question is:\n\n1.  Berkeley\n2.  Cal Tech\n3.  Stanford
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There are some really fine universities in California, and many of them have foreign students. Look at University of California Los Angeles, University of California Berkeley, and Stanford. Those are probably the three best, but "best" really depends on what you intend to major in. For example - Engineering, go to UC Berkeley. Film? UCLA. Business? Stanford.
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UC Berkeley, hands-down, is the best public university.  That's why UC Berkeley is the only UC school who gets to call themselves simply "University of California."  That's why when you say I go to "Cal" it means UC Berkeley.  Each state designates one university to be the flagship state university, and in California "Cal" is the one.  Cal also remains the highest ranked UC in all major ranking publications.\n\nP.S. However, if you are considering private schools (i.e. Cal Tech, Stanford), that's another story.
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I went to the high school.  Man did the swimming locker rooms stink.  Because the football players from the college used them.\n\nActually I hear the money of Menlo Park is finally starting improve the quality of the college.  Ah, probably just a rumor!
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All UCs are good, but the ranking is as follows:\n\n1. Berkeley\n2. Los Angeles\n3 San Diego\n4. Irvine\n5. Santa Barbara\n6. Davis\n7. Santa Cruz\n8. UC Riverside\n\nUCLA has better opportunities given its location.
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As an alum of Stanford University I can give you a first hand description of what a lot of people consider to be the best all around university in the US.  First the academics are top notch; if you're a grad student in certain fields.  What has really garnered Stanford a superb academic reputation, in my opinion, has been the strength of their graduate programs such as computer science, law, school of medicine, and cutting edge bio-technology programs.  To be fair, the University has put in a lot of effort at shoring up their undergraduate program as well, but there are certainly some departments out there that don't feel this as much as others.  \n\nAs far as an athletic program, Stanford is really the best all around athletic university and has been for quite some time now.  They've won the Sears cup for about a decade now and the number of Olympians on campus really is staggering.  However, if you're really into football then you might have another opinion since the football team hasn't enjoyed as much success as other programs on campus such as track & field or a lot of the aquatic sports.\n\nIf you're taking into account the weather, then aside from some rain during the middle of the academic year this is a great place to hit the books.  Early fall, late winter and all of spring quarter you can see tons of students literally just outside the library studying on the many grassy lawns on campus.  The heat isn't harsh and when it gets "cold" it will dip as far as the 50's or so during the day on the most miserable of days.  Not bad at all when compared to peer Universities in the Northeast such as Harvard or Yale.\n\nStudent life leaves something to be desired as most of the sudent body lives on campus.  That means that all of the parties are on campus and thus subject to University guidelines.  The upside though, is that the University is pretty lenient on most issues aside from RA's serving alcohol to frosh and observance of quiet hours.  In addition to this, parties are always within walking distance, so you can get trashed on a friday night without having to worry about a designated driver.  Though, if you don't have a car, getting past the same ol' frat party on campus can be a challenge.\n\nAttitudes on campus are pretty laid back, but that doesn't mean people aren't competitive.  Stanford culture has it that it's not polite to talk about your accomplishments or boast in any way.  It's pretty much assumed that you're eating dinner next to some kid that invented something, won some national competition or is on her way to becoming a nobel laureate, but no one is supposed to really brag about it.  What results is this mentality where everyone tries to one-up each other on how lazy she is, complaining about lack of sleep and a general disdain for grades.  \n\nAs far as cultural diversity, the University tries to pride itself on admitting a diverse student body.  The University also tries to foster student groups that explore various cultural traditions.  They have lots of money set aside for this and if you get a group of friends together and have a great idea, then the University will probably fund it.  This goes beyond cultural activities and is true for any sort of club as well as research endeavors.  In that respect the University is excellent in that if you are motivated about any research or extracurricular activity you can probably get funding from the University for it.\n\nThese are some of the points that I can think of off the top of my head and I think that if they don't make Stanford the best University around, then they certainly make it an extremely well-rounded school that is definitely in the running.
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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'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.