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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stanford is only the most selective school due to lack of competition. It's the only truly world-class elite private university west of the Mississippi. Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are located a couple hundred miles from each other and are tugging away for applicants and interests. Furthermore, you get a lot of weaker applicants at Stanford who are more interested in athletics and stand no chance of getting in. The desirability of California plays a big impact as well, [b]which is why you see Berkeley[/b]/UCLA as the public schools [b]with the lowest acceptance rates [/b]and Pomona/CMC as the LACs with this. [/quote]

You have no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious that you seriously think the only reason people apply to Berkeley is because it's just some random public school in California where the weather is nice. And that Stanford is only famous because it has no competition.

Have you heard of this little thing called the Internet?  :shock: Where do you think it came from?

And you think non-Californian universities don't have weaker applicants who are hoping to slip in based on athletics?  :roll: [/quote]

Ummmm well since you asked: the Internet was originally developed by the USG. [/quote]

You think the USG does actual work? :roll: You really do sound like someone in DC. Totally clueless.

As a PP said, yes, the work was funded by the USG (like a huge percentage of research) but the work was done at Californian universities. Not just Stanford, also UCLA, etc. I wasn't giving full credit to Stanford.

And there was a bunch of stuff coming out of Berkeley. Like Unix, for example, which I don't expect will mean much to someone like yourself, but to those of us who know anything about the tech industry, it's a very big deal.[/quote]

Uh. Do YOU know anything about the tech industry yourself? UNIX was originally developed by Bell Labs. Berkeley developed just one “flavor” of UNIX. Sun and others created other “flavors.”

Berkeley certainly fostered a lot of innovation though. You did get that part right.  :lol:

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Unix was developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson immediately after he graduated with both Bachelor and Masters from... Berkeley. He later returned to Berkeley to develop a specific “flavor” of it.[/quote]

He wasn't the only one. . .[/quote]

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