<p>Very definitely Barnard. </p>
<p>I’m the parent of a Barnard grad & also went to Berkeley for grad school & live in the bay area, so very familiar with both. The personal attention and support you will get at Barnard is simply incomparable to what you would get at Berkeley, especially with UC funding cuts. I’d note that even if my d. had not gone to Barnard, she would have turned down Berkeley (which did accept her) for either UCSB or UCSC based on talking to her friends about the undergraduate experience. </p>
<p>If there was a significant cost differential between the two, I might have a different view. I don’t think that ANY college is worth +$30K over the UC campuses – but I was very willing to pay a cost differential (accounting for financial aid at both schools) of +$10K.</p>
<p>I really cannot begin to express how different your experience will be in terms of your relationships with the faculty at Barnard as compared to Berkeley or any other UC. There are other issues that might be different – for example, I think that campus life overall is more vibrant at Berkeley – but I think academically you will have a much richer experience at Barnard.</p>