Cal- Education Pride

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Fall 2010 Freshman Profile*
SAT Reasoning Test scores
(25th % 75th percentiles)<br>
Reading: 620-740
Math: 650-770
Writing: 640-750
Average unweighted GPA<br>
3.93
Average weighted GPA<br>
4.39</p>

<p>Fall 2010 Transfer Student Profile*
College GPA (25th & 75th percentiles on a 4.0 scale)<br>
3.75-3.80</p>

<p>I just checked the admission stats of Cal, and seems like it has been getting tougher to be admitted. I am kinda glad to see how the standards are getting higher so that ivy folks will eventually stop claiming that Cal students are subpar and not even comparable to them. </p>

<p>I can afford to go to Ivy but I choose to attend a public institution with OOS tuition because I do believe the overall experience of education Cal will provide to me. I have lots of friends saying that I am so stupid, paying an oos tuition is insane. But I don’t like the idea of an environment that almost everyone comes from a wealthy family. I personally think I would learn more from students with very different socially-economic background. Ivy students are not necessarily more “competent” or “intelligent,” it may be true that public education is inferior in some ways, but think about, public school students are probably more independent in the way that not everything is “served” right in front of u. </p>

<p>Any thought to share guys?</p>

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<p>I hadn’t even thought of that, and I completely agree.</p>

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<p>The prices for both OOS Berkeley and Ivy are outrageous if you are not getting any financial aid. I would have probably gone to none of them… I would have taken a full ride to your state flagship if you were offered one. But that is just me. Well if you can afford it go for it.</p>

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<p>I am not even eligible for financial aid. I am too rich for financial aid but not rich enough to feel no pain for the insane tuition. I guess being middle class sucks</p>

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<p>or we can just all be grateful that we can even consider going toa university…</p>