Berkeley?

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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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This was a while ago, but...

"I get the impression that being an undergrad there is really difficult for some because of the lack of funds and the faculty to student ratio."

See the above post regarding funds.

http://community.livejournal.com/fountainhoppers/68335.html?thread=431087#t431087

Regarding faculty:student ratio, it's a misleading figure. Stanford has about 20,000 students now, and just over 1,000 faculty. It advertises a 6:1 ratio, though that's for undergrads only.

http://www.stanford.edu/home/statistics/

While Berkeley has more students, it also has more faculty. It has over 2,000 faculty and about 34,000 undergrads, though it has more part-time faculty. If you take 1/3 of part time and add that to the full-time faculty, you come out with a faculty:student ratio of about the same as Stanford.

That ratio isn't so important, though. It's the class sizes that matter. From an above post:

In my research, only about 5% of Berkeley's classes have over 100 students; this is only slightly higher than Stanford's. In addition, more than 60% of classes at Berkeley have fewer than 20 students, compared to about 70% at Stanford. So not substantially different -- I think the "big class" image is what most people tend to attach to state schools.

"Many majors are capped"

Berkeley offers over 100 majors to undergrads; only <10 are impacted.

Anyway, just sayin'.