<p>you guys…i’ve been reading the other threads about Cal and I’M SCARRED. the negative experiences might make me go to UCSD and not cal…i dunno. the major complaints seem to be:
<p>You’d get more depressed if you went to UCSD.</p>
<p>WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!! My bf’s little sister got in to Berkeley!!! WOOHOOO!!! 
I better tell her to buy her football season tickets asap. Yay, another bear in the family!</p>
<p>congrats on your acceptance futebolista!</p>
<p>friends who go to berkeley have said that it’s tough making real friends there. seems like there are a lot of people there who are academically bright but lack character. but i wonder if ucsd would really be that different for you. i think wherever you go you’ll find a nitch, as long as you don’t hide in your closet between classes.</p>
<p>Thanks Dicky 
Congrats on getting into CSE @ cal!</p>
<p>has anyone looked into the co-op housing? it seems better than apts or dorms. do you think there will be many transfer/ upper division students there?</p>
<p>“dumb ppl( i dont get it either)”</p>
<p>Some smart people have an annoyingly bad habit of calling other smart people “dumb”. It’s almost as if they expect to see 140+ IQs wherever they go. We’re regular (yet hopefully above average) 19-23 year olds too.</p>
<p>One thing I hope doesn’t come from me getting this acceptance is people treating me different. I was surprised today at how often I saw good friends constantly try to challenge me (or start using million dollar words) as if to prove they are just as good. I hate that.</p>
<p>I hope UC B isn’t exceedingly difficult.</p>
<p>if you fear, doubt, your merits, DO NOT attend berkeley. its as simple as that.</p>
<p>“if you fear, doubt, your merits, DO NOT attend berkeley. its as simple as that.”</p>
<p>I concur. Berkeley is not for the faint of heart.</p>
<p>thief - I am going up to look at co-op housing, soon.</p>
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<p>Yeah I’ve been getting that from classmates. Now I feel like people automatically perceive me as snobby. </p>
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<p>Same here for the same reasons. Actually the only reason I’m even preferring Cal over UCLA (didn’t apply) is because even if Cal turns out bad socially, I’ll be living with my gf to keep me sane :)</p>
<p>Now that you mentioned people treating you differently I am sure I will notice a lot of it going on… even if it really isn’t. Nice observaton though.</p>
<p>HOW MUCH HARDER is cal compared to other UC’s? i mean a UC is a UC right? comparatively…whats the diff between a chem class at cal and a chem class at UCI?</p>
<p>and brandon please let me know about the co-op housing as soon as you can…i’m really looking into that.</p>
<p>btw, it seems like haas accepted more students this year. lots people around me have gotten accepted, and some of them had little volunteering and ECs</p>
<p>why is ucb referred to as cal?</p>
<p>cuz it was the first UC in california</p>
<p>I noticed there were a few people who applied as an English major with fairly high GPA’s, 3.7 and 3.9. However, both of these people were accepted for Spring Admission. Does anyone know why?</p>