Berkeley grades SUPER hard but is EXTREMELY active with affirmative action:
This means MANY minorities start out at UCB but cannot hack it and drop out —we hear of this pattern elsewhere but this path is very, very, very well-trod at Cal.
I suspect it will not hurt that she’s an Obama, but…I dunno —they really take pride in grading people hard, there, especially in engineering, etc.
I think blacks, etc, drop out of Berkeley at a rate of maybe 90% or something.
All she will have to do is put her name on the application and she is in. Does anyone believe otherwise? No school wants to be harassed by the IRS goons for not letting the princesses in.
She hasn't got a prayer with the brain cells she inherited from those two yahoos.
I thought nah, not hard, upon reading your post, and then noted the affirmative action part. One of my daughters graduated from UC Berkeley. She said all you have to do is breathe and show up and you'll graduate. But then again, she's not black and got in on her own merits. Graduated just as she turned 21, and worked part time until she graduated; then worked full time. She was aware of the affirmative action folks who spent many years there and were no where close to graduating.