University of California-Berkeley Top Questions

The difficulty of the coursework compared with other schools

How seperated engineering is from the rest of campus and how fast everything would pass along with the work load and exetreeeeeemely harsh gpa's.

Knowing how to pick classes and what I would need to take for a certain major or to be given recommendations that applied for my general education credits. That, and not to be narrow minded to the classes you should take by branching out and taking other classes.

The campus administration is much more conservative than the student body. This has created a rift between the student government and the administration. The large scale decisions are top down, and many students feel they do not have a voice in either their student government or with the school administration. The large scale party politics, Cal SERVE and Student Action both have good goals and people, but spend much more energy in petty power fueds than in making actual progressive change to the school. The student body overall is very disenchanted with its voice.

The difficulty of being able to date someone and the normality of one nightstands

Read all the fine print for the classes you need and don;'t need to graduate

that i should wait one year and apply to other graduate programs that have better funding

I wish I would have known about all the options to get involved in research as an undergarduate and taken andvantage of them sooner in my time there.

You might be close to San Francisco, but you are so busy you don't get to go very often.

There are many textbook exchange services available.