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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the major.

As an engineering major? Yes. It was brutal. I have never heard of anyone's tests getting curved down before because the competition was so fierce. My freshman calculus class, 10% of the class got 100 on the first exam, so a 99% was a B due to the curve. My C+ became an F. It was insanely hard.

This was 20 years ago, but math classes were so overenrolled, if you didn't get to class 20 minutes early, there wasn't a seat in the 500 person lecture hall and you had to watch the video of the lecture from a satellite location. It was not fun.

My elective classes weren't bad though. Anything humanities was fun.[/quote]

There were also a LOT of classes that I felt were a middle ground-- somewhat challenging but also very collaborative.  Business, economics, public policy classes all felt that way. Never took any life sciences classes so I can't say what those were like.[/quote]

Outside of Engineering/CS UCB is like any other large public which means larger classes and a wide variety of students with varying degrees of effort. The top large publics are great grad schools but nothing out of the ordinary for undergraduate education.

For engineering and CS if UCB wasn't in the heart of teh tech world it would be no different than Purdue, UIUC, and Michigan.[/quote]
I mean sure, but it IS in the heart of the tech world and trains some of our best engineers. Harvard wouldn’t be such a good place for medical research if it weren’t in Boston, but it IS.[/quote]

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