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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virginia resident whose kid has gotten into UVA (honors), but also Berkeley. So is it worth it to pay twice as much to go to Berkeley instead of UVA?[/quote]

Can't your kid just establish CA residency after 12 months? I did that as a grad student at UCLA. [/quote]

By the time I left Cal in 2000 (BA, 1994; PhD 2000), it was three years if you were enrolled in school. They were trying to keep people from doing that.

I went to Cal a million years ago (as you can see above), but I would still recommend it to anyone who can get in. It's where you want to be.

My degrees are in Humanities fields, and they still command respect. I have never had trouble finding work, even now as a military spouse.

It is sooooo different from UVa, though, that I would also suggest a visit. I went in 1988 to visit Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA as a rising Junior from Alabama. Stanford was so quiet and bucolic (yawn). The minute I stepped off BART into downtown Berkeley, I knew it was where I needed to be. Had I not visited, I would have had a very different sense of where I wanted to go.[/quote]

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