University of California-Berkeley Top Questions

The school has a smaller campus feel but it is not too small. The school is located ten minutes from downtown Atlanta. I enjoy the location of the school because I am very familiar with this area.

The academic and social atmosphere at Cal is completely unique. The student body at Cal is diverse, with students from every walk of life. All of the students I have met are sincerely kind, willing to go out of their way to help a directionally challenged freshman lost on campus. Teachers are engaging and care about students whether it is a class in a huge lecture hall with hundreds of people or a small discussion group of 10 students. Cal has taught me new ways to look at the world, with passionate and amazing faculty and students. Go Bears!

You know you're in u.c. berkeley when: you see a random person standing on the side of the word reading religous text, a sign claiming the end of the world is near, a political organization protesting a situation or the library is full during the first week of class. If there's one thing to take away from campus, it's that there's something for everyone and you will be exposed to more kinds of people than you knew existed.

Berkeley supported and inspired me to make work about modern-day child sex trafficking and spreading awareness and promoting action. While in my last year at Cal, I will be leading a team in creating their own meaningful art projects. As the leader, I will be challenging the members to use unconventional methods in portraying their thoughts and to explore content they care about because I strongly believe a person needs to be passionate about their work in order to send a genuine and influential message across to an audience. This opportunity wasn'y available at the other colleges.

At my school, everyone is different. There is no "typical Berkeley kid" except that ALL Berkeley kids study a lot. What's unique here is that everyone fits in.

The flavor of life in and around Berkeley as well as the energy and spirit are unmatched anywhere else. It is consistently considered one of the best, if not the best public university in the world, and it is home to some of the worlds greatest minds as evidenced by the Nobel laureate parking all around campus!

It has good academics and social atmostphere. Diversity!

U.C. Berkeley is set apart from the other schools that I considered due to its deep diversity academically, socially, and intellectually. The list of the programs of study is almost twice, if not three times the list of other schools with majors ranging from Peace and Conflict Studies to Nuclear Engineering. This wide array of academia attracts many students from around the nation and world, creating a mini-scale world in a campus no larger than 7,000 acres. This atmosphere breeds intellect like no other, igniting debate, ingenuity, and creativity at the highest level.

Compared to other schools, I found UC-Berkeley to be a unique school because of its commitment to student expression. At none of the other nine schools to which I applied did I feel that political activism would be stressed as much as it is here. I love that at Cal, we are all free to voice our opinions about vital matters. And not only are we free to do so, we are encouraged to. This activism for activism is what ultimately made me realize that Cal was the school for me.

Berkeley has a liberal culture that always is pinned upon progress. This year, the students were given the opportunity to have three specific genes tested in hopes of raising awareness about personalized medicine. The Berkeley student culture is often the first to implement new ideas and push the envelope on what is accepted.