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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HYPSM is likely to be the enjoyable/fun undergraduate experience though. Berkeley may be nearly or on par academically, but the campus/living experience seems less than ideal.[/quote]

What? Have you ever visited Yale? No way the “living experience” in New Haven compares to living in the Bay Area. I don’t love Princeton, NJ either.

Cambridge is great, not that different from Palo Alto or Berkeley.[/quote]
I'm talking about the campuses themselves, not the cities surrounding them.[/quote]

I think the PP was referring to how the campus environment is so intensely crowded. It’s lively but going to the library or dining halls or office hours is like going to Disney on its most crowded day. It has the reputation of being very divided, intensely competitive, stressful and lonely. The grading policies with deflationary curves leads some kids to sabotage others. Berkeley’s weird admissions leads to a hefty number of unethical, cheaters being admitted.

The surrounding town is awesome IMO but Berkeley is surrounded by the highest poverty areas in the Bay Area. There seem to be more drug addicted aggressive homeless people around than in San Francisco where the homeless are more chill. Berkeley’s wealth attracts muggers and robbers from nearby Oakland and Emeryville etc.[/quote]

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