University of California-Berkeley Top Questions

Diverse, community of focused individuals looking to learn about other unique cultures and individuals.

Berkeley is one of the most accepting, dynamic, and culturally diverse places you will come accross in your lifetime.

It is a large, diverse school which requires hard work in order to succeed in.

Not worth the money.

A very open community, that harbors and nutures individualistic thinking, and provides the tools for students to succeed in life.

The University of California Berkeley is a beautiful campus environment to enjoy the incredible resources and benefits of higher education and academic prestige while appreciating the vast diversity of the student popluation and being inspired by some of the most influential professors in the country, and all the while taking the opportunity to find yourself and your place in the world.

My school is a place where students come to find who they are and most of us go away satisfied. The knowledge that we receive at UC Berkeley is influential in our quest to find the purpose of our life. We get to choose what we want to do for the rest of our lives, not caring about the amount of wealth it may bring us, but the happiness that we will receive from doing what is best for us.

The school has just about every opportunity you would want to ask for.

Cal is increasingly expensive, and if you're bored, it's your own fault.

A simmering stew of grand tradition, lofty expectations, and an envigorating promise of hope that fills the world with the alluring scent of progress.

Amazing place to learn

My school is amazing; there are so many sites and activites to do, it's impossible to visit and/or do them all and earn your degree because you're also so excited to learn.

Berkeley is exactly what you expect of it: rigourous, chaotic, but at the same time the perfect place to spend your undergraduate career.

UC Berkeley and its students/staff are ambitious, intelligent, eclectic, spirited, loyal, and diverse.

A mad, refreshing hurly-burly of intellectual and social challenges you'll never weary of.

Tall, out-going, smart, friendly.

UC Berkeley is very diverse and intellectual.

A school of positive change and new ideas.

It has a high academic reputation and it fulfills it.

Lot's of work, but there's also a lot to do in your free time.

The most intellectually diverse and stimulating enviornment I have ever personally encountered.

The best school to make lifelong friends and prepare for the future.

Berkeley has a very competitive academic environment.

Corporate university. Producing the kinds of students/careers that are needed for the state/corporations. Academically rigourous. Demanding workloads. Lots of extracurriculars.

A good introduction to the real world.

Diverse

Berkeley is a very broad and diverse campus with literally thousands of groups and activities which will fit the needs and interests of any student.

Academically rigorous and socially diverse.

fun, sprited, hardworking

Berkeley is big, hard, uncaring, active, and alive.

haven for inquisitive and determined people

It's extremely focused on academic excellence, but still retains a lot of pride in its athletics as well as being the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement during the 1960s.

A great well-rounded school offering excellence in academics, social life, cultural diversity, and environment.

Berkeley is the place where you can be whomever you want to be, and become whomever you want to become; anyone can make it their ideal college experience.

Big, liberal, and out there.

My school is the Athens of the West.

nicer alternative to People’s park. Still relatively close to campus, and smaller and quieter

Located between Memorial Stadium and the fire trail, is a really nice place to work out or go for a swim

Park is the setting for a number of free basketball games and random run-ins

Outside of the standard information concerning Doe Library

This review of the campanile begins with basic tour information

The classic campus tour of California Hall offers only historical and practical information.

A walking tour of Foothill: La Loma in about a minute and a half.