How to Succeed at Berkeley

mememoi
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:32:37 +0000

I’m not sure how to phrase this question or if it will make any sense but I’m going to try anyways haha. I always hear people talking about how they were at the top of all of their high school classes and then they go to Berkeley and they’re just average. Well, if everyone is “average,” who are the students at the very top of their classes at Berkeley?

I’ll be moving to Berkeley in a few days and taking a class over the summer before I begin my freshman year in the fall. How can I most easily make the transition from my AP classes in high school to Berkeley? I want to be at the very top of my classes at Berkeley and I’m willing to work as hard as it takes to do it. What separates the students who are at the very top of the class at Berkeley from those who are simply average but were considered geniuses in high school? What should I do during my first semester (and future semesters) to try to maintain the same level of academic excellence that I proved capable of in high school?