which school is more prestigious?

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<p>Ucb,
While I know you haven’t read all of it, I was asking if you felt that CP was successfully communicating some of the frequent thoughts expressed by students at UC Berkeley. These were the ones you listed:</p>

<p>Top student praises for Berkeley were:

  1. Huge, diverse, and intellectually-driven student body
  2. World-renowned and inspiring faculty
  3. Large and abundant academic and athletic facilities
  4. Natural amenities (marinas, parks, trails, ocean, etc. )
  5. DECAL program to start your own class
  6. Academic prestige in professional circles
  7. Cal Football games
  8. Thought-provoking and world-famous speakers
  9. Berkeley’s energy</p>

<p>Top student pans for Berkeley were:

  1. Quality and price of off-campus housing
  2. High academic pressure
  3. Homeless population around campus
  4. An overly accepted drug culture
  5. Rainy weather in the winter
  6. Lack of local hot spots as opposed to San Francisco
  7. A college-town feel that can, at times, feel suffocating
  8. Lack of parking and the non-car-friendly UC policies
  9. The work-related pretentiousness of some students
  10. Bureaucratic/administrative red-tape</p>

<p>How did they do?</p>

<p>Surely there is more that they could cover and I expect that they do in the books that they publish. Have you ever read their stuff? It’s not completely accurate, but I have been impressed at how much they do get right. </p>

<p>As for your question on the sample size, I’m not sure what the right number is. If you’re on a college campus and sampling and getting similar responses from large numbers of students, how many more do you need to ask? If you hear 200 times that the student body is “huge, diverse, and intellectually driven,” is there much utility in hearing from another 200 students? </p>

<p>Noimag,
That thread is huge so direct me to the post you’re referring to. </p>

<p>My bottom line on CP is that it’s an informative source. Is it perfect? No, but they get a lot right and provide a fairly detailed inside view on many aspects of college life at a given school. I value the thoughts of the consumer and would use their comments as a spur for further investigation on issues that were important to me.</p>