| UC Berkeley = Nice campus, some fantastic buildings, cool weather year round, never hot, never real cold, nice views. Full of CA kids that had top gpa's and scored high on SAT's.
Not a BArch program. Heavy on theory. Nice guy Frank runs the woodshop, said all the arch students screw themselves by procrastinating on projects requiring wood thinking they can access the woodshop at the last minute in the middle of the night like in studios, but he locks the door and goes home at 6pm.
A very good place to do grad school at.
USC = A pretty campus but very cramped, I mean the buildings are too close together. Met the Dean of Architecture who told me three things; lots of good schools out there that will give you a good education in architecture, he had 110,000 screaming alums on a football Saturday that would write him a check for anything he wanted, and he never felt comfortable lecturing from the podium that Frank L Wright used... He never even asked me if I was interested in applying to arch at USC. I think he felt he has enough applicants.
UToronto = at's in Canada, eh?
(sorry, I have no clue how to write a Canadian accent)
-sara |