<p>Just had to pop in because somewhere in this thread it was suggested I was jealous of Brown and duke(?!$&@). I spent Freshman year at Harvard. Didn’t care much for it and transferred to Berkeley. Only other transfer options I considered:Yale and Columbia- which I got into as well. Why would I be jealous of Brown or Duke, when I am Harvard material. Ridiculous. I am not jealous of a lessor Ivy League or a hillbilly Ivy. The point that so many here are making is that from an international perspective, Berkeley - with its plethora of Nobel Laureates- has tremendous pull. Lesser Ivies and schools like Duke -less so. It may not be fair or fully justified- but that is how it is.</p>
<p>I was raised in a Bruin household. Bruins, then Golden Bears. Worst enemies:Trojans. Never would have considered Stanford. My family would have abandoned me and left me to be raised by feral wolves. Might have gone down differently-the feral wolves may have forced me to attend USC or Duke…</p>