UC vs IVY LEAGUE

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:53:46 +0000

I live in SoCal and it’s true that getting into the UCs in-state is no big deal. I got into all of the UCs I applied to with Regents Scholarship and what not. Berkeley is my top UC choice if I were rejected by all the private schools I applied to in terms of favorite.

However, Berkeley’s scholarship offers a very strong incentive both in regards of the money and the fact that I may have more research opportunities there. However, I’d be more likely to accept Princeton/Harvard over Berkeley any time. If I get accepted to UPenn, I’d probably have to choose Berkeley over it though (I’m a Physics/Math major). Also, I should mention that Berkeley has a very lenient double major program which I’m very fond of.