<p>Sorry disasterous. As a student who went to UC Berkeley for two years and then transferred to Yale, I can tell you firsthand there is a pretty significant difference in the quality of undergraduate education here. There are definitely opportunities at both, and you could certainly make the most of any situation… however, the resources Yale has per student is incredible. Also, I think the large publics tend to focus way more on their graduate students than the Ivies, rather than the other way around (at least in my experience with UC Berkeley and Yale).</p>