<p>As much as I love UCB, I think this is pretty silly. Berkeley is an easy college to get into regardless of whether you’re going in as a freshman or a CC transfer. I’ve spent my entire life earning far more degrees than I need, and have taken courses at nearly every major university in the world, including a handful of CCs when my finances were running thin. Professors and difficulty of coursework is so subjective that I don’t really know why you’re bothering with such sweeping generalizations, but I have definitely taken courses in CCs which put to shame ones I took at Cal and other universities. I met some professors in CCs that were more brilliant than any professors I had interacted with in the Ivy system. And on the other end of the worldly spectrum, my time studying at the University of Tokyo was a living hell of difficulty compared to graduate studies at Stanford.</p>
<p>And really, when it comes down to it why complain about this? HAAS isn’t that challenging to get into to begin with. I’ve known quite a few complete imbeciles who got in without breaking a sweat. As far as I know, transfer admits into HAAS also do about as well as those that were in Cal as freshmen.</p>