An unorthodoxal source of information...

gabew42
Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:14:23 +0000

I believe the Berkeley video mentioned the preponderance of asian students; perhaps I am mistaken. It seems though that you are simply pointing out what is already obvious. Every campus has different groups; a short preview video cannot present a comprehensive picture of an enormous, diverse university. With that said, I think the videos are worthy to add to a prospective student’s information portfolio.

When it comes to the campus I am most familiar with (UCSD) none of the information was invalid (except for the freshman admit stats; I can’t vouch for those), and I can say for a fact that it presented a lot of info a prospective student might not know, but should.

And since the videos were filmed on the respective campuses, I wouldn’t say it presented the “national view” of a given campus. It just might have focused on one aspect of a campus as opposed to another because of the limits of that kind of video.