UC Davis Honors VS UC Berkeley

flutterfly_28
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:08:26 +0000

There’s a HUGE advantage to going to Berkeley compared to Davis, especially if you are interested in biology. The ‘honors’ at Davis does not mean anything in terms of prestige, no graduate school is going to notice it. Berkeley is going to be top 5 for any biology ranking you see, it’s on the same level as Harvard and MIT. You will probably work in a research lab as a biology major, especially if you want to write an honors thesis - Berkeley’s going to have many more well-known labs doing great research than Davis. You’ll have an easier time with grades at Davis, but you’ll learn so much more from Berkeley’s MCB classes.