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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you check out her early videos, she was rejected or waitlisted from many of these top schools and was pretty bitter about attending her UC for the first year or so (my kid watches her videos). It's a good lesson in getting over disappointment and making the most of the opportunities that are available to you, so I hope kids watching her have that takeaway. Coming from PA/Midwest, I was surprised to see how competitive and stressful her HS experience of applying to college and receiving decisions was and how bitter (and somewhat entitled) that environment of overachieving and competition can make 18 year olds. It was news to me that kids felt disappointed by UCLA and UCB and snarked about or harbored resentment for kids who did get in, whom they perceived to be less competitive. [/quote]

This is very, very common among UC Berkeley students. [/quote]

I find this to be very true also.  There main comparison is Stanford which does not help with self image.  Also, most of the other UCs have closed the gap or even past them.  UCLA definitely has better undergraduate experience with housing and food, etc.  
A common rivalry joke is what do Stanford and Berkeley students have in common?  They both applied to Stanford.

I guess it helps her ego to rank Berkeley in the Top 10.  [/quote]

Berkeley is in the top 10.[/quote]

In what way does Berkeley come close to providing top 10 undergraduate educational quality?[/quote]

America’s Top Colleges 2021: For The First Time A Public School Is Number One

RANK.                    NAME. STATE  TYPE.           AV. GRANT AID.         AV. DEBT.         MEDIAN 10-YEAR SALARY

1.    University of California, Berkeley CA Public.  $19,126               $6,000.              $138,800
 2.        Yale 
 3.        Princeton University
 4.      Stanford University
 5.       Columbia University
 6.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 7.     Harvard University
 8.  University of California, Los Angeles
 9.  University of Pennsylvania
10. Northwestern University
11. Dartmouth College
12. Duke University
13. Cornell University
14. Vanderbilt University
15. University of California, San Diego
16. Amherst
17. USC
18. Williams
19. Pomona
20. UC Davis
21. Georgetown 
22. Michigan
23. Chicago
24. Rice

https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
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