Do I regret going to UC Berkeley over UCLA? Life at CAL Update

[@aptmap5181]

It's so refreshing to find a school that's tough while the students are competitive and go-getters. We need more Berkeleys but sadly most people want easy school. lots of parties, end up with a useless degree and huge student loan debt

[@fixpacifica]

I chose my school based on how good the football team was.

[@kathyhuynh3392]

I love Berkeley. It is hard and challenging but it prepares you well for the real world and the academic we got at Berkeley is unmatched.

[@ninersnation3298]

I'm like asian kids would fight to get in. he is wasting the spot. my child got rejected at stanford, mit, and Cornell but accepted at Carnegie mellon, UC Berkeley EECS and Georgia Tech. UC Berkeley was never a top 4 choice, but unfortunately my chinese child got rejected all his top 4 choices. He is choosing UCB over CMU. My child is so advanced taking senior level Computer Science courses (AI and machine language) by his 12th grade at university of nevada.

[@deftoneslistener]

@@ninersnation3298 cry about it

[@manman3792]

Cal sucks

[@edricflo]

4 years at Cal is brutal.. and I bet 2 years as a transfer is the same as well. I don't regret it one bit. GO BEARS! Once you are done and get that degree, take a deep breath and its quite amazing.

[@adamramirez1]

Go bears!

[@Useryuic]

nYU harsh got got got that auk auk auk girlfriend in New York that walks around thinking she’s helping his film career. Soo I look whoever that bitch was. Took my $8,000 dollars of equipment and gave to Harsh good friend so he will have a better career than miss beautiful. So harsh saw all the Amazing cameras, softwares, lighting, editing, sound equipment, SD cards and everything His friend got that Harsh girlfriend walking around never gave Harsh. So harsh went on a fucking plane and left back to California to back to his friend to help him with Harsh career with that same career he wanted. Thank his friend for that. Fuck yiu UsA 🇺🇸

[@kathyhuynh3392]

Totally agreed. Go Bears!

[@mckinseyand2022]

I love Berkeley!!! I love the campus and people.

[@희선-e4r]

thanks! I just watched the first video. Ive been accepted to both universities and both videos were very hopeful!

[@adamramirez1]

congrats! that's a big accomplishment.

[@yourfavouritehuman6774]

Thanks so much Adam am trying to decide between Cornell and UCB. this video was very helpful in my decision!

[@Y0m4ama]

Whered u end u going

[@bubblegum8084]

Thank you, I'm choosing between Cal and a private school in Southern California, this helped a lot!

[@ihavenosoul230]

Is it USC? What did you end up choosing cuz i am so torn as well

[@sarasotelo1104]

I’m on the same boat as a bioengineering major on the premed track, what did you guys end up choosing? ! 🤧

[@mellowyellow5865]

I’m in the same place… Cal or USC… but like I’m into USC’s film school so everything is a little bit different. If it wasn’t for that I would definitely go to Berkeley. But now idk what to do….

[@ninersnation3298]

@@mellowyellow5865 my niece got accepted to USC's film school and my child got accepted to UC berkeley EECS. It is a good year!! UCB EECS only accept about 400, hard to get in with less than 5% acceptance rate.

[@manman3792]

Choose USC

[@Ncloud]

I'll be honest most UCs are pretty similar except Cal and UCLA they just have way smarter people

[@Ash-uf4fv]

Definitely not true lmfao

[@Ncloud]

@@Ash-uf4fv the ones all on the quarter system are all stressful

[@samann9]

you mean academically smarter

[@m.pitt765]

Student @ Ucla aren't any smarter than students at other schools. Cal students are more well rounded and prepared to succeed.& have more opportunities to network. Ucla is overated in many academic depts-with exception the Medical school.. Ucla also discriminates against African Americans & other minority students. *Cal is far Superior in academics Overall than Ucla. Enough Said

[@iUseDemFrapz]

@@m.pitt765 Mad you got rejected from UCLA lol?

[@adonis4186]

Nice Good work I like this one a lot Hopefully I'll get into both and decide on Berkeley for what you said. It'll suck because the girls at UCLA are stunning, but I can't look at it like that if I'm playing the long-term game.

[@flintymac1886]

Berkeley is filled with interesting and eclectic characters who are working on the front lines of groundbreaking research. UCLA is much more of traditional college life with better dorm food, parties, girls etc but there is plenty of amazing experiences to be had in Berkeley. - A Cal Sophomore

[@rwang5688]

Cal alum and UCLA parent - Your comparison is spot on 👍👍👍

[@adamramirez1]

Thank you!

[@gabrielmoreno3274]

I recently got accepted for undergrad EECS early. I am definitely leaning toward Cal > any other UC. Thanks for telling me your experience :)

[@adamramirez1]

Congrats!

[@Skittles1987]

Me too! EECS and invited to interview for regents and chancellor's. It's for sure at the top of my list

[@gabrielmoreno3274]

@@Skittles1987 Want to link up on any socials? Congrats on regents!

[@Skittles1987]

@@gabrielmoreno3274 Thank you and sure thing! YT keeps deleting my comment but my socials are on my channel description page. I only really use the first one not the rest

[@ninersnation3298]

Congrats!!! my child got accepted to UCB EECS too.. I heard it is hard to get into the program. Cal was never our top choices. Got rejected by Stanford, MIT, Cornell...but got accepted by Carnegie Mellon, UCB and Georgia Tech...I still don't get why my child got rejected by UCLA and UCSD. those are lesser schools than UCB.

[@martypoll]

Interesting . . . I graduated from Cal in 1979 and 1983. I was also a transfer student. Back then it was pretty much just schoolwork. I made some friends in the COOPS. I met my future wife there. The social/cultural scene was decent but standard for any college campus. There were no protests during those years. I wasn’t interested in sports or student clubs/actvities. Studying physics and mechanical engineering kept me busy enough. I had some of my worst and best professors at Cal. The whole entrepreneur thing took off decades later. There was no thought about jobs while I was there. When I interviewed for jobs I was seen as an oddity. I eventually had a 30 year career at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory located above the Berkeley campus and actually retired in the UC retirement system. My UCB degrees served me well but the school experience was challenging and the social environment was nothing special. I don’t know what to think of today’s competitive school experience today. I graduated debt free. The school costs were about $1,000/quarter back then.

[@adamramirez1]

It’s definitely evolved, you can feel that it’s turned more into a business rather than an institution. But… GO BEARSSSS 🐻

[@XTHFLU]

As far as social scene goes DT Berkeley has a lot of great spots and it’s right by campus and dollar days at golden gate fields is a must do and first Fridays in Oakland were always fun. You could go with 30 or 40 bucks and have a good time. The social scene at Berkeley requires a desire to be social but once you find it you’ll make memories for sure. My only regret about going to Cal is the first time I used the word “hella” naturally and it made me mad being a SoCal native hahaha

[@michaeln.2383]

Some students don't qualify for med school because they attend Berkeley and fall below a 3.0 GPA. UC Davis always made more sense to me. Sometimes, swinging for the fences turns into a long, fly ball.

[@adamramirez1]

Well said

[@143VL7]

Hello! If I may ask… how has your time at Davis as a pre-med student been? Ik choosing between schools must have been difficult so how do you feel now? (I’m in a somewhat similar situation and am just curious lol)

[@manman3792]

UC Davis is a much better school and experience than Cal

[@notsyco]

i got into cal for cs early and this is making me feel better

[@adamramirez1]

Congrats, great cs school

[@ChrisLee-bq2xv]

Im choosing UCLA over UCB. Prestige wise UCLA caught up academically. However positive vibe and image, UCLA wayyy better.

[@adamramirez1]

Congrats, both are great schools at the end of the day. What are you going to study?

[@halea41]

How did ucla catch up?

[@manman3792]

Bay area native that went to ucla for grad school. Cal sucks

[@manman3792]

@@halea41ucla is the number 1 public university. Cal is 2 now

[@justinbrennan1326]

Well done. Thank you.

[@matthewandrew]

never go wrong with UCLA 🐻

[@conamcalius5340]

Thanks

[@r.layug5821]

Very informative.

[@manman3792]

UCLA is just as Elite as UC Berkeley, yet ucla is just simply the better school. Better social life and better student organizations that last beyond undergraduate

[@adamramirez1]

@@manman3792 sure man.

[@Anonimo-cv8rq]

Im currently in the process of transferring as an Econ major. Which school would you say is better for a finance career? And if there’s a major difference.

[@adamramirez1]

Berkeley is a target school and Ucla is a Semi-Target. So, it plays a bigger factor if you want to go into high finance so careers like Investment banking, and MBB consulting. If you're planning to do a career like accounting or even be a financial analyst, either school is fine because they have good placement into these easier to break into roles.

[@Anonimo-cv8rq]

Thanks for the clear up. From your experience would you say being a transfer limit your chances at IB? Breaking in is hard in itself for non transfers, so I’m not sure if there’s really a chance whichever route I go.

[@abc123-d2t]

Go Bear.

[@robjohnston366]

Let me do a shortened version of what I just wrote -- some disagreements to what you stated, some agreements: -- There is no grade deflation at UCB; in the academic year of 2021-22, the average gpa of a bac-recipient was 3.53. (At UCLA it was 3.59.) COVID did have an effect (Zoom, open book tests, etc.), so after factoring out the terms affected, I'd guess the average will be 3.4s at Cal & 3.5s at UCLA. --UCB has two 15-week instruction terms, a dead week, then a finals week. UCLA has three 10-week instruction terms, and a finals week immediately following. Quarters (trimesters) mean immediate immersion in studying, and no slacking. -- UCLA has more preprofessionals, future law and med students, so there is more attempts at grade preservation there, than at Cal. Both Cal and UCLA have similar nos. of undergrads with Cal having a bit more now. -- UCLA has a bigger greek presence, and some of these students would rather socialize than spend most time studying, and then go into real estate, or general marketing, etc. A lot of the hot girls at UCLA study Comm or Psych and use their connections to get into these fields. -- UCLA has strong business-related clubs, inc. entrepreneurship and VC, but they are similarly hard to join. -- UCLA has a strong presence at MAANG, etc. but has just a CS major and a CSE in its E dept, as opposed to Cal having L&S CS and EECS. UCLA has peripherally oriented CS majors in different depts. -- UCLA has Math/Econ, Econ, and Business Economics, and about 7-8 math majors for those who want to go into analytics, finance, consulting, banking.

[@TohaBgood2]

Grade deflation at Cal is a widely documented phenomenon. You just have to try 3x harder to get the same grade that you get at UCLA basically just for showing up. I say this from experience. It is absolutely _not_ the same. In the end you get the same average over the cohort, but it is muuuuuuuuuch easier to fail at Cal. The distribution is wider and more brutal.

[@robjohnston366]

@@TohaBgood2 3x times harder? You are insane! UCLA's CS department is in its engineering department, unlike L&S CS at UCB where 1/2 of its CS majors at the school get their degrees -- the others are from EECS, which would be tougher. There are numerous math and physics requirements for UCLA's CS. UCLA's affiliated CS majors like Math of Computation is in its math department which is extremely tough, and there are Applied Math majors who go for MSCS and DCS degrees from prestigious colleges. You just don't show up to get good grades; there are easier majors at UCLA but there are also easier ones at UCB also.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@robjohnston366 I'm sorry, but you have no idea the level of work that you need to put in at Cal to simply pass. Half of my friends audited literally every single class they took a year ahead and took mock exams. Then they did the decals to prepare for those classes, and only after that did they actually take the class for a grade. At that point they were basically just showing off their accrued knowledge. Again, Cal is... something else. You all just have a very vague idea what goes on at this school.

[@robjohnston366]

@@TohaBgood2 That's ridiculous. You'd be talking about 7 years to get a degree if what you stated were true at UCB. UCLA's CS is tougher and more rigorous, and the premeds at UCLA study effectively all the time. UCLA is on the very accelerated quarter system, with no dead week between the end of classes and finals.

[@TohaBgood2]

@@robjohnston366 Lol, you have no idea, bud! No idea at all! Cal is insane. If you're not already exceptionally good at your chosen major then you have zero chances of surviving Cal with just the amount of work that people put in at UCLA. I'm not saying this as a slight toward UCLA. It's a good school. But Cal is in a completely different dimension. Let me put it this way, if you think that you'll get to sleep at all at Cal then you don't belong there. You'll just end up transferring out after they put you on academic probation.

[@Kenchanneruuuuuu]

Do you feel like you became street smart by living in Berkley?

[@adamramirez1]

I became Berkeley’s Batman, jk but not really. You do become cognizant to always watch your surroundings and walk home fast especially at night.

[@keithchun9107]

Having to actually apply to “get in” to a club is f-ing ridiculous- same BS as fraternities.

[@adamramirez1]

Most have a

[@sandramiller1988]

Do you think you might have chosen a private school like USC?

[@adamramirez1]

private schools are just really expensive. if money isn't an issue than I'd consider it but I still think cal is better in most categories.

[@JT_the_great]

What's ur major ?

[@adamramirez1]

Political Economy

[@TohaBgood2]

@@adamramirez1 Ooof, good luck! And don't skimp on those stats and data science classes. You'll need them later 😉

[@adamramirez1]

@@TohaBgood2 data science masters?

[@TohaBgood2]

@@adamramirez1 Good option if you can get in and are into that. But it's getting pretty crazy competitive. So make up your mind soon if you want it so that you can prepare.

[@bani_niba]

Bravo - yes, the academics and career are (obviously) the most important aspects of higher-education. These will benefit you for the rest of your life. So many people treat these years as a social party. Guess what, those people will pay with the rest of their unfulfilled lives.

[@ocballer]

lol bro we had Ugba 106 together - Osiris. Nice vid

[@adamramirez1]

My guy

[@yasirzaroug4925]

Go Brauins

[@adamramirez1]

Serious bra 😒

[@yasirzaroug4925]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I am kidding Both are the best

[@adamramirez1]

@@yasirzaroug4925 same haha just poking fun on how you spelled bruins lol