Considering Berkeley is not even ranked very or most competitive and for many years not even a competitive institution, it isn’t any proud distinction to have matriculated from Berkeley. Stanford, (that junior University) on the other side of the bay, however, is an honorable institution to have on one’s CV.
Hey! Watch it! There are some Golden Bears around here!
Berkeley is a great school, and my alma mater. True, it has its, ahem, colorful aspects, but a lot of top flight business people and engineers still graduate from there, as well as a notable contingent of conservatives in various other majors. The Federalist Society chapter at the law school was founded in the late 1980s. Until informed otherwise, I’m going to assume it’s still there, along with several conservative law professors. Also, what many people don’t realize is that, a notable number of rural Northern Californians go there, and they are salt-of-the-earth people.
Stanford, I read recently, had some ridiculous number, like 2, members of the faculty, who were not Democrats. You’re paying a lot of money for all that group-think, over there.
Berkeley isn’t cheap any more, either, but not as expensive as Stanford. If you’re going to get silly extremists either way, why pay more for it?
Dude. The City of Berkeley is full of leftist retards. And the University of California, like most American universities, has a left-leaning faculty and administration. But it is a plain fact that Cal is very highly ranked and is very competitive.
If you're referring to UC Berkeley, it was ranked No. one in physics and the life sciences when I attended (1967-1972).
How about your Alma Mater?