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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try finishing Berkeley in four years. Classes are hard to secure in any given major.[/quote]

80% regularly do. In fact, [b]in the latest USNWR data pull, Berkeley had a four-year graduation rate higher than HYP[/b]. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/highest-grad-rate

Even in years where it is the opposite, they are often with 5-8 percentage points of each other.

Just another one of these DCUM myths.

And I still probably wouldn’t choose Berkeley over HYP, but it does have some strong programs where it is competitive (CS, Econ, history, if you really wanted to study business not just end up in it).[/quote]

I find that hard to believe because of six-year graduation rates.  Berkeley: 93%, Harvard: 98%.[/quote]

It’s not hard to believe, it’s the same data you can find on College Navigator from the National Center for Education Statistics and reported by the universities.

There’s a Covid element in there, but that it didn’t affect UCB and affected Princeton much less is not really a favorable argument.

Fact is that the “it’s hard to graduate on time” from UCB is mostly nonsense. [/quote]

My son graduated in 3 years with a double major from Berkeley. None of his friends had trouble graduating in 4 or less years. I read so much about not graduating on time that we almost did not send him there. For him it was a valuable experience because his startup got funded while he was in college. He did not get into HYPMS despite strong stats but it worked out well. As another poster said, the opportunities are there at Berkeley but you have to actively seek them. He was OOS.[/quote]

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