THE ONLY UCLA VS. UC BERKELEY ADVICE YOU NEED + college tips from recent graduates (timestamps!!)
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- Hi everyone!! My brother and I are here to give the ULTIMATE UCLA VS. UC BERKELEY college advice! As recent graduates from UCLA and UC Berkeley (we're both class of 2020) we thought it'd be fitting to make an advice and college tips video, since many incoming college freshmen and transfers often like to make a comparison between the two schools and the pros and cons of each.
I realize that this would probably be more useful in the spring when college decisions come out, but I made it now while we're both still living under the same roof LOL. Also I know some of y'all will be doing college applications soon so hopefully this will still be a good resource. Also feel free to save this video to watch later when you get accepted ;)
*I know we totally didn't get to cover everything despite this super long video, but PLEASE COMMENT BELOW if you have any questions about what we said or any college advice in general!*
Here are the timestamps!
02:34 - Academic rigor
04:01 - Social life
05:36 - Campus
07:27 - Freshmen dorms
09:44 - Dining hall food
11:24 - Extracurriculars (student orgs, clubs, career/professional development, etc.)
13:02 - People
16:54 - Places to visit (surrounding cities to go to, etc.)
19:04 - Affordability (cost of living when you get your own apartment)
20:59 - Student services (health and wellness, academic resources)
23:03 - BONUS CATEGORY teehee ;)
As always, thank you for watching!
Love,
Karen
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THE UCLA VS. UC BERKELEY ADVICE YOU NEED TO WATCH | college advice from GRADUATES timestamps below
Thanks for watching you guys!! If you have any more questions (literally anything - things we didn't mention in this video, post-college life, careers, etc.) comment down below or DM me on instagram @karensupandi
Thanks- how hard is it to get off campus housing for Berkeley that is on a bus route?
This was so helpful, I’m literally deciding between UCLA and Berkeley rn ;_;
Me too! Are you a freshman or transfer admit?
me too i’m so torn rn
@@junesing what did u choose and why?
@@brittanyengel6745 what did u choose and why?
@@wd4050 I ended up choosing Cal because they have the better business program which is what I’m studying! I also wanted to put myself out of my comfort zone because Cal is the further option out of the two! Definitely a challenging school, but I really think it’s preparing me for the professional world :)
Thank you two for a very honest and fair comparison. My brothers went to Cal, and I went UCLA with two summer sessions at Cal. My daughter is currently attending UCLA, which now offers guaranteed dorm for 4 years. 🎉Yipee~
wait omg that sounds like me! I recently picked LA over Berkeley and did berkeley summer school and summer programs throughout hs!
I grew up in OC, went to Cal (Go Bears!) and came out a hippie. My husband and I met at the engineering orientation our 1st year. 30 years later, my son just got accepted to Cal and UCLA. Cal vs UCLA. My heart wants him to go to UCLA because I’m back in OC. The costs is unbelievable nowadays, but the cost of UCs is still so much cheaper than IVYs or privates. I went to Cal but my high school classmate went to UCSD. Then we went to SUNY Optometry school in Manhattan. Now we are back here in SolCal. I’m in Fullerton(OC)and she is in Santa Monica(LA). Currently, both of us own our own private practices. She was happy in UCSD and I loved Cal. So congrats to getting into any UCs. In the end, college life will be what you make of it no matter where you choose to go.
Ahhh thank you so much for sharing your story!! Definitely agree with your last sentiment - and big congrats to your son for getting accepted to both!
Thanks a lot! This is really helpful
Thanks for this video. Was confused btw UCLA and UCB. In this new time it's really difficult to choose a college and GET ADMISSION (cuz of no SAT).
Just got off the waitlist at UCLA!
Very helpful!
thank you this was helpful!
woah ucla and berkely’s mascot are both bears :000 how have i never realized this-
wait.....a bruins a bear right,,,?
Look at the history, UCLA started as Cal South campus. So they adopted Bruin for a mascot, like a little brother to Cal...
THE TRANSITION GOES HARD!!!
THANK U HAHA AND THANKS FOR WATCHINGGG 😍😍
love it!! you two are so great!! also GO BEARS
THANKS FOR WATCHING WILL!! 💙💛🐻
Thanks for tipping me towards Berkeley :)
UCLA has the cooler vibe. UC Berkeley is more nerdy.
@@westcoastdude4777 imagine thinking thats a bad thing
@@mq1469 the schools are the same bro 💀 I got into both UCLA is better all around if u include academics, social life, location etc. Berkeley is great though. Just not right for most people. Also I’d say both schools are pretty nerdy. I mean uclas acceptance rate this year was sub 10. These kids are smart
@@mr.google9248 I got into both too...
Did you really base your opinion on acceptance rate? I based mine on rankings, prestige, and recognition in academia. It's best if you go to UCLA.
I was accepeted in both for a PhD sandwich program and I went to UCLA. The academics there is super high, I really enjoyed my research time there at UCLA.
UCLA recently became a better college but we don’t know the future as the past.
I'm DYING "There's a lot of tables and stuff...."
HAHAHAHA idk how to describe croads bro 😪😪
If UCLA is easier than UC Berkeley, it is better to go to Berkeley since HR will hire the more motivated student at UC Berkeley. When I was at USC as a graduate student, I just don't have time to socialize at USC.
Two heavy weights. +35 fields of study with 100's of majors. Stacked with top ratings and national rankings. Despite the stats, this simple take was actually accurate - imo. Your school is a lifelong community - where in the end it goes like this - she'll marry a guy from Stanford and he'll end up with a girl from USC - and they'll do this all over again.
Engineering is definitely a focus at Cal. However we were told Cal engineers come out with too much focus on academics they are pigeonholed into designing needs. UCLA would be more well balanced with more social skills t market products after the design. Is it true lots of SC firms support clubs that promote engineering designs ? Cal has more government funding for research while UCLa has private funding?
How hard is Berkeley Engineering compared to UCLA Engineeeing? Kinda scared that I’d fail in Berkeley
Cal engineering is one of the best in the world. Cant say the same for ucla
Hands down Berkeley for academic rigor and toughness. Grad work at UCLA is average in Engineering not as rigorous for a top rated school. I found grad classes at Rutgers NJ were more rigorous in Engineering. Berkeley is a whole another game.
Engineering is gonna be hard in general. The question is who teaches it better. I would assume Berkeley teaches it better but idk
Engineering is hard regardless. Which school would offer more exposure to research and practical applications? Would most Cal graduates end up working in Bay Area while ucla graduates work in southern CA or nationwide ?
Hey,, it’s so fun to watch !
Accepted both UCLA and UCB,, living in socal,,, umm 🤔
What’s you guys major at,,?
haha thanks for watching!! my brother majored in mechanical engineering, and I majored in cognitive science :)
@@KarenSupandi Congrats both and a very nice video! You are correct on academic rigor. No offense to your brother, it is still a great achievement.I was a grad student many years ago at UCLA myself. ME at UCLA is not really in the same league as Berkeley, the math rigor has been significantly diluted over the years. Back in the 80s UCLA was lot tougher I hear, but even those days Berkeley was superior!
You two are way too cute 😍😍SoCal also. My daughter, Malia, turned down UCLA for Berkeley. Mechanical Engineering . She loved the design of the campus and the nerdy vibe. Go Bears!
Karen, the thing about which you need to be concerned with respect to the video is how it has aged. Currently, UCB is having a huge housing crisis because of city ordinances, but they did work around the problem for 2022 by admitting a lot of spring admits, but it's something the University has to address even more in-depth in the future. Additionally, since you made this video, UCLA has become a tad harder to which to gain entry. The last time which was 2020 when UC used the ACT/SAT -- now it's test-blind of course, UCLA caught UCB in average scores, but UCLA started to pull ahead with respect to incoming-student grades. For the class entering in 2021 according to each campus's Common Data Sets, the average UCLA enrollee had a 3.92 unweighted gpa in high school, with 55.4% who had straight-A 4.00 gpas. For UCB, it was 3.867 and 33.0%. For transfers, UCLA's incoming average was 3.85, and for UCB it was lower, but I'm not sure how much. I agree that UCB has more competition because UCLA is a bit more preprofessional and even more collaborative as Jordy stated, with more of the latter's students who go to L- or M-school. So some are looking for easier majors to preserve their gpas: Sociology and Polisci (not really easy in anyway) for L; and less rigorous life sciences -- Physiological Sciences instead of Computational Biology or Biochem for M. But the video was nonetheless entertaining; I enjoyed it.
UCLA!!
You guys are wrong about academics and extracurriculars.
I need to chose Berkeley or UCSD and it is such a hard choice.
If you wanna have fun and chill a bit go to ucsd, if wanna have great job opportunities after college and are willing to sacrifice some sanity go to berkeley.
Go to Berkeley! I need others to suffer with me lol. In all seriousness tho Cal seems great I'm excited to go
What did you pick
@@A_Random_Rat i picked UC Berkeley
Go Bear.
GO BRUINS
This Berkeley girl was mostly lying. Berkeley is not a bad as she put it out to be. I was laughing listening to her lies.
You need a car for UCLA..going to Irvine, SGV and K-town is NOT convienient...DTLA is junk..either you have a car or need to know somebody..and what the hell is a college student gonna do in BH..GO Bears ATW..go to Cal for college culture.
Funny you don’t mention Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Venice Beach, West Hollywood, Manhattan Beach, Bel Air, Westwood, Brentwood, etc. All of that outweighs the East Bay.
@@legacyjeetkunedo492: The UCLA campus and surrounding neighborhoods are magical. Nowhere like it anywhere in the world. Berkeley is nice, but the rest of the East Bay is snoozefest. SF is cool.
The thing about Berkeley is that the locations nearby are unsafe and filled with homelessness. SF has been trashed, Oakland is ghetto, and San Jose is the most boring place on earth.
Um saying Oakland is ghetto is a very questionable and racially insensitive thing to say😬. That word has racist and classist undertones if you didn't know, especially when used against BIPOC people and neighborhoods.
There definitely is a problem with homelessness in the area, but you could've found a better way to say that.
@@sydneyfessenden6119 I'm saying it as a person of color from Oakland. It's trash here
@@lr76927 that doesn’t mean u should use the word ghetto to describe it tho...
@@sydneyfessenden6119 yeah whatever
Go Bear.