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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DP.  I don't think the PP was comparing New Haven to Berkeley, but rather talking about the residential experience.  Yale is famous for their residential colleges with wonderful advisors of all types (masters, writing tutors, etc.), dining halls, and guaranteed housing for 4 years.  Rice has the same thing - it makes the college a smaller community within the university.  Berkeley is huge and does not guarantee housing beyond the first year, so people have to scramble to find off campus apartments.  Not unusual for state schools, but it's certainly not like Yale or Princeton or Dartmouth or any LAC where the students are all clustered together on campus.[/quote]

It depends on personal preference. If you want to live in a big city with vibrant life outside the campus, things to do, more of a real life feel, then you’d hate the small college town experience.

Most people that went to Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth say it’s boring and sheltered.

Living off campus has its own advantages for example living with the boyfriend/girlfriend, some of the best parties. Some just don’t like the undergrad dorm/frat experience.[/quote]

Okay, but we are talking about UC Berkeley, not NYU or Columbia.  I wouldn't call Berkeley, California "a big city with vibrant life outside of campus."  I would say that most college kids at these top schools do not have a car on campus and are not big partiers anyway. [/quote]

+1. You don’t go to Berkeley for “a big city with Vibrant life”.  Lolol![/quote]

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