Berkeley?

[nyucknyuck]

Note: this is not to start a flame war.

A person and I have had a "discussion" on the views of Stanford students toward Berkeley students. I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a Cal student who thinks that Stanford students are "subpar" in any way. But I don't think it'd be too difficult to find a Stanford student who turns his nose up at

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[starinatdasun]

Just to echo back some stuff that's been said, the whole Cal stereotype that Stanford students are a bunch of rich kids is total bullshit and actually is one thing that really bothers me. Yeah, I know some pretty rich kids and there are some royal family affiliates, but I'd say the vast majority of my friends here couldn't afford to attend without a significant amount of aid. When it comes down to numbers, Stanford pretty consistently offers better financial aid than most colleges; they offered me by far the best package out of all of the schools I got into, most of which were UCs like Berkeley.

I'll also agree with the comment that the rivalry is one-sided, because honestly if someone from Cal shows up on Stanford campus to visit (and not to try and "sabotage" the campus, aka get kicked out by Stanford PD before they actually do anything), 9 times out of 10 the reaction from people is going to be "oh okay, cool." The only time you ever *feel* the rivalry kinda is during Big Game week, when we kinda hate on them in Gaieties (but mostly make fun of ourselves) and buy T-shirts with witty slogans that we never wear again. Then we lose Big Game, go home, get drunk, and move on with our lives.

[ieke85]

I agree with you 100% about the income levels of students here. It's just that we have rich donors. That doesn't reflect on the whole student body... or even most of it.