UC Berkeley vs UNC Chapel Hill [environmental science and chemistry]

Sweetgum
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:23:51 +0000

I am a UNC alum and I live in Chapel Hill still. I don’t find it overwhelmingly “white boy frat culture”. I think you see more of that down the road at Duke, actually. UNC is somewhat diverse racially and ethnically and very diverse economically. You hear all sorts of languages spoken on campus and in town. Most people at UNC are not involved in Greek life. They weren’t decades ago when I went there and they aren’t now. It’s a very small part of UNC. I think UNC is a good school. It’s definitely had some growing pains of late, but there are some fine opportunities there and it’s a well recognized institution. You can get into any grad school from UNC.

And Chapel Hill is very liberal. I don’t know that it is much less liberal than Berkeley. NC is certainly less liberal than CA, but the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are very lefty. They are actually more lefty than UNC is.

Berkeley is much more urban. Fantastic school. California is very different from the east coast. I lived in LA eons ago, but not the Bay Area although I have visited. I think they are so different in feel it would be worth it to visit. Drive down to CH and see how you feel about UNC. That’s pretty easy from MD.