#UC Berkeley (UCB) (2023-2024)
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oski supremacy
all these mascots are trippin

dartmouth mascot (theyre alcoholics)
me when ppl say ucla is better than berkeley
Tin man from wizard of oz core
"so what color is YOUR element"
"where is YOUR element"
"where are YOUR nobel prize winners"
👎 😤
exactly
Is Berkeley’s grad or undergrad program better?
top 10 globally qs rankings
grad I guess but both pretty damn awesome
ucla is good but it just aint on berks level
unpopular opinion of mine but i think ucla is closer to umich than berk
me when people say stanford>berkeley
where stanfordium🙄✋
I heard grad at public schools generally get less funding than privates from my math prof who went to ucsb for phd
45k
dogfood
Yummers
LMAO
cant wait to have a clam chowder breadbowl
I actually want to try out Berkeley dining hall food
I think it would be a core memory
its boutta be my life for the next 4 years
Oop
i remember pier 39
the one time i went
29 or 39
whatever its called
the clam chowder breadbowl
is ingrained in my memory
had it 6 years ago and still remember it
its time to reunite
im def gonna eat at kiraku on cal day tho
pier i love
Find those one group of guys who escaped (or drowned)
looks better than that pile of turds i sent earlier ngl
Bro what’s on the bottom left of the tray 💀
Is the thing in bottom middle a sandwich or a steak
not sure but it looks edible
Kinda looks like cursed calamari lolll

the berkeley goggles be extending to food too
Me: can we eat out?
Mom: we have food at home
Food at home:
the on campus food that arent dining halls seem pretty fair tho
R there kitchens in any of the dorm buildings to cook?
Ah icic
RLLY
theres some weird lore behind it but its not meant to be pleasing to the eye
yes
lmfao
its the arch sch
We were on tour and the tour guide forgot what it was and she was like yeah uhhh it doesn’t look the best
bruh 💀
Berkeley lore is interesting
how many flex dollars u spend in a week
ermm
i have like 20 left
shit's so rough
i spend way 2much on food
lmfao
sum people r weird af and dont spend flex
im cooked thats gonna be me
but these days ive only been eating once a day
oop
so real
i dont have time to eat
lol
some people ran out like EARY
EARLY
im talking feb
god damn
but honestly
between gbc and the eateries
food isnt horrible
some days it is ass
but
there r always other options
n its gotten way better croads was way worse before
i mean 300 flex dollars, 30ish weeks or something, thats like 10 flex dollars per week u could spend
tho like, how do u ration out 12 meal swipes a week
i dont eat
lmao
so its not an issue
hypothetically
RISE UPP
so true
WAIT
why though
holy shit ucla dining halls r good
7 days a week, two days i just gotta one less meal
doesnt seem too bad
ooh
noice
chipotle is honestly the best food for college students
only 10 bucks n it lowk fills you up
its a win
i dont have it often tho
but we have one right next to campus
i heard u can use flex dollars on grubhub
u can get guac too
worth it?
yea
which is crazy in this economy
WHAT
figured
hey why the hate
sorry
lol
prelaw is valid
js not like fucking gender studies
the gender is gendering 🙏
oop okay
boutta make someone get a clam chowder bread bowl for me from SF
ima not get cancled td
😭
the studies r cool
if i could i would do classics
but theres no career
at all
for many
if i wasn't poor i would be majoring in some easy shit rn
so so real
haha
i cant believe ucla still has until like june
that is sooo tuff
im burning out n we got a month left
yea im burning out too
its actually not okay
calc 2 is gonna eat me up
i want to leave
im chilling in my other classes tho
i will never take a stats class simply because of the word problems
what language u guys using
R
bro R is like easy as shit tho
python better
kay cs major
mb
sum of us aint never coded
i have a lot of premed/med family and they all told me they hated R
premed crazy tho
i can't imagine going to school for more years after college
im cooked
what's ur gpa?
3.57
u still have time to make up for it
i wouldn't worry until you're like a sophomore
hopefully this sem i get a 3.8
gotta lock in 🙏
me when im taking ochem n physics
next sem
its gonna go down
lol
yea
isn't ochem a big weeder at berk
shieet
true
i have a cousin at cornell med who said she loved ochem so much that she tutored kids for free
i was like alr bro we get it
haha real
thats insane
i met a girl today who said ochem is so fun
and im telling u i ws taking it this sem (waitlisted) and it was HELL
first two weeks were alr hell
did u drop it
on top of that she was complaining about her 3.9
erm i didnt get off the waitlist LOL
im so glad i haven't met ppl like that yet
oh
it really makes you feel great ab urself
shes not even prehealth
what are her plans do yk
im switching my major so i can start having a life
2 what
linguistics & comp sci joint major
ooh good stuff
the reqs are so much easier
Grindset
yea after two quarters of being like that i've realized i that i do not wanna be doing that for another 3 years
It can get a little humbling
Yeah totally valid
save your sanity
i respect
as long as i do well enough to get an 80k base salary postgrad
even my humanities classes r so heavy reading
im chilling
ngl bro i chatgpt so many of my humanities/social science classes
sometimes i think its just the humanities addons which make me more miserable than stem
like fuqin breadth reqs
like let me take my sci classes + leave thanks
i've never been able to read properly
if i read long enough i'll end up losing track
and reading random shit
i need to figure myself out tho cuz i looked at project instructions for intro to cs ii
do i stop now or do my readings
in size 8 font
?!
idk if it's size 8 but it's small as shit
i want to stop
if i were u
i would just be like
i cannt
everyday
oh nice
ugh i need to get back into running
if u can smell urself that's like bad bad
i enjoy it
cuz that means everyone around u can smell it 10x worse
running is W
welcome to berk
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not comitting
especially for data sci 
there's this professor who has the shittiest ratings on earth but supposedly he doesn't fail anybody
ucla or cal
boy i wish i had two meals today
i ate 4 bags of chips for dinner
stomach problems at uni r so bad
not as bad as in high school
all of last week i was jetlagged
"ayo who takin a shit!!!"
so it was hell
NO
taking a shit here is so embarrassing
bcs communal bathrooms
people talk shit ab others who poop in the bathrooms
i know spots here that have luxurious bathrooms to shit in so it's amazing
i only ever pee in communals
all the berk bathrooms r nasty
same!
do homeless ppl be using it
yea
that's prob why
oh ok
Do people do drugs in the bathrooms at Berkeley
ew dude WTF
so fucking gross
Good to know lol. In my hs ppl do 💀
ill never forget
same
Rip
my friend was in bathroom and someone watching porn in there
in berk??
ye
that's wild
dead
there r so many bad bathroom experiences
my friend went to one
and there was a piece of shit on the floor
literally
At my middle school someone smeared their shit on the bathroom wall
my friend
im so scared of homeless people
saw dirty pads apparently on the bathroom mirror
i tense up on runs when im passing by one
also
theres sm stories
once in the library
i was going to use the bathroom
n theres thix box with trash
ants flowing out of it
two days later i go again
ants still tehre
they dont clean that shit
ever
amazing
good stuff fr
n she was yelling
and like
saying shit
communal
boys n girls
is it good or bad
there's always so many homeless like that in dtla
and swinging his arms
at the air
or like swinging at cars
idk what bro was doing
wait r u planning on early grad
if i do ling cs i can grad early yea
when
like fall of 2027 if i don't take summer classes and don't stack classes during quarters
if i stack during quarters and summers i can prob do like fall of 2026
dayum
chat i am not berkeley material i just wrote (-5)^2 as -25
damn
how
I got into ucsb and ucsd cs both around 7% ar for cs maybe lower 💀
And idk I talked about reading for the academic subject piq
well ur not math major so
i mean u do read a lot for coding
Ig but I was talking about like more book related I wouldn’t really consider that cs related
I did not know cs has that low acceptance rate💀
My ecs were so mid 😭
yeah but im doing stats/ds 💀💀💀
i take that back
wait i thought u were ai lawyer
btw u shud withdraw from berkeley 👍
yeah that's my secondary major
oh okay ill do that after i commit!
what is the commit plan rn
well technically…
What ur stat
⁉️
how hard is it for international to get off the waitlist? 
how hard is it for international to get off the waitlist? 
berkeleyyyyy
W
huh
i SaId WhAt I sAiD
BERKELEY NUMERO UNO!!! 🔥🔥
i need to get off berkeley waitlist
why would it be bad
Those r two diff colleges
workload
yeah, im in the college of chem trying to double in l&s
if you want me to be honest, yes
your life will be hell
but if you enjoy the subjects go right on ahead
what major?
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not committing
especially for data sci 
and for eecs 
and for applied math 
add eecs to that list too pls 😭
i gotchu :D
do you or anyone you know do this
what? lmao
i am a student at berkeley so no my username didn’t say that lmao
Would be great if you can add applied math to the list too 🙏
Going to unless I don’t like vibe of nu once I visit
Gll
i gotchu
my life is complete
😭
2 alt accounts
hooray
yoon i thought we were friends.
WE ARE DW 😍
Did he also ask you to hold onto the doors for the rest of the flight?
It was a 737
I should thank my lucky stars the door didn’t separate
are you premed by any chance
yeah
are ur classes kicking you in the ass
I’m planning to go premed to in Berkeley that’s why im a little concerned
yes dm
like are they super hard
Like messing w u in the head
yea
when exactly did c berkeley wl acceptances start to come out last year?
its gonna be later this yr bcs committment deadline is may 15
i'll be in the 1st wave trust 🤩
(i love being delulu)
*we'll
*we
where r the hobos :(
but that does look nice
It’s really nice
I have no qualms
Food was good too
At CK
W
you're eecs?
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not committing
especially for data sci 
and for eecs 
and for applied math 
rip
y'all those of you who are going to Cal day please send pictures🙏
theres no way
it literallysaid ucla
can i talk to a phyiscs major
why.
They made us
For a program
We get hosts
Who currently live in that room
And we sleep on their floor
why are you sleeping on the floor
However some other races
really????
Got fucking hotels
that's so
Which isn’t fair at all
sad
oh💀💀💀
Let me explain
We are split into different “identity groups”
We got black
Asian American
Filipino
Hispanic
Native American iirc
And the native Americans got a fancy hotel
While most of us got dorm floors
But nobody besides the native Americans and me know that
Because a current berkeley student caught em at the hotel
On camera n shit
I house food review
It looks decent but tastes fuckin mid
4/10
Orange juice ain’t even saving the meal
It’s watered down
💀
Idk if it’s my food selection
But the potato wedges
Are fraudulent
My other participants got different food and say it’s banging
So I’ll knock it up to a 5-6/10
Not particularly great
hyped for cal day
Update
The only thing at I-house that hits this morning is the cream cheese and croutons
Everything else is mid central
oh no
aintnoway it's raining tomorrow
from tomorrow im waking up early morning to exercise and go walking to build up my stamina so i can do the walk everyday from clark kerr
no it did not lmao
Fr😭 worst day
Just wrapped up my first berkeley lecture
Was awesome
The hall I did it in was super chill and had a nice window view
I fw this hall more than I did Royce Hall at UCLA
omg what was it about
pictures? :(
Unfortunately no but it was wheeler hall
And it was a lecture about paleontology
ooooh
🤫 no u gotta convince ppl to NOT commit
berkeley berkeley berkeley
you should become friends with freddy
D:
hell yeah
nuuu
english major freshman from india she's just like me fr
LETYS GOO
beecs
⁉️
was anyone in the reach program by chance today? if so you heard me speak😁
r u in REACH??
Unfortunately no
o rip
i will sadly not be going out on cal day🙃
:/
i was just on the panel today!
Ah nice nice
Real shit fr
i didn’t register for the fgli event at berkeley🥲 and i can’t fly out sadge
You shoulda
Sure you gotta sleep on the floor in a sleeping bag but the stuff other than that is great
i didnt even c it until it was too late ngl
Sure sure
So basically the program gets run by like 9 different groups at 1 center
You got the BRRC/african-american group
REACH which I think is either Hispanic or Asian American
I forget
And then just a lot of identity groups pretty much
The groups sometimes collaborate but not very often
So we see people from other groups but mainly you’re with your own group
If your group has a dorm theme floor you get to sleep on the floor of a current undergraduate student or students of that theme floor
Or else just a hotel
But you do mock lectures, learn about ur identity group’s experiences at berkeley
See SF
See berkeley
And you just do a lot of fun stuff
Like the Hispanic group is having a carnival
The African American group is having a bbq thing
And so on and so forth
My only complaint would be the lack of ability to have fun with people from other groups
Cause people made friends in other groups
(And so did I)
And we all got separated
But it’s pretty chill otherwise
We get 2 hrs and 30 minutes of free time for cal day as well
I’d want like 3-4 hours cause I plan to see some people
But I’ll take what I can get
The transport to get here is free and covered by ur group
that sounds so fun
i shouldve registered ;c
It was fun
And then the cal band
- oski
Did a live performance for us
ur making me more jealous gang
Shit was awesome
I know but you asked me to tell you about it 
im joking but ty for the info c:
im from east coast
Most of the people here are either going to Cal OR they’re deciding between Cal and UCLA
and ngl my school is like 1 step from getting taken over by the state so im scared ill fail at berkeley
I mean if you can afford it you should give it a shot anyway
A lot of my advisors are current students from not so good schools
And they say it can be hard but they find it possible to succeed anyway
I will add tho that some people seem to be a little rude towards us
Like last night there were 10 of us walking and we tried to go into a library
But it was locked but some people were inside
And they saw us
Side eyed
yeah heard the ranking makes it cut throat ...
thats disgusting..
sorry u had to go thru that
I mean we were annoyed but it didn’t phase us too much
im glad u had fun tho
Thanks thanks
r u from west coast?
Yeah from LA
they flew like 40 of us up here
But in total there’s like at least 100 people here in the program
i shouldve reasd my email better woifeuhgwfeih

oh wellz
The thing is idk if they’d cover that
ppl said they did but i wasnt sure either
ngl berkeley a little stingy
tbf all publics r
but
They flew us back because they had a reception the night before in LA, and the admissions staff I met then were our chaperones the next day
But the thing is you may not have an available chaperone where you are
And Berkeley most likely would not be willing to let you fly alone
For legal reasons
okay ur making me feel a bit better
congrats on berkeley
must be hard esp from cali area
Actually
It’s harder OOS
Than in-state
So congrats to you
tyty but honestly we all worked hard DUbs
Indeed
yes ma'm
Ayy I’m doing data science too
W!
YES this is so funny
also bestie why are you in the berkeley thread
checking up on you ❤️
we don't want berkeley rejects school admits here🙄✋
AWW
oh! ☹️
have to manually unlock for the nice ones
manually unlock 😭😭
me when someone says Harvard>berkeley
wb ucla > ucb
its true (gotta get berkeley admits to withdraw)
nothing wrong with that, just facts
all berkeley admits should choose to go to UCLA
the objectively better school in everything
(totally not related to my waitlist)
nah srsly ucla is better, u shud go there and withdraw from the berkeley wl rn trust me
💀
its time :D
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not committing
especially for data sci 
and for eecs 
and for applied math 
NO.
wisconsin
and haas/econ
🙏
well actually...frick it im international they won't take me anyways 
any chemical engineers pullin up to cal day
i’m from jersey! but DUBS WOOO
WOOOOO
bruh no way it’s raining
last Yr cal day was sick
not cheme but im here for coc!
mb mixed u up w someone else 😅
does anyone have the link to the appeal form for berkeley
I did NOT expect the data sci session to be that good, wow
whatd they talk about
How good we talking
what was it like
does anyone just have some photos of touring berkeley
i wanna see how the campus is lol
it was super funny and had lots of life advice lol
of course very informative as well
the berkeley campus is beautiful bro
there’s some aura
and the vibe in the college town
vibe today was special cuz of cal day
everyone wearing merch
most social day of the year
like all-day frat parties and stuff
yo can you drop down a list of points that said and stuff😭
I went to a block party
Shit was fun won’t lie
seconding this ^^
even tho im WL im curious lmaooo
OOOOOH WHAT WAS THERE
lol the meche session became the guys research presentation halfway through
it was really interesting though he said we could email him after for the slides so i will
I’ll send you photos
cal day haul
wtf
all except the caps sweatshirt and top tote baf was free
allat was from 5ish stands out of like 100
there’s so much free stuff
W berkeley
the swag bag was so underwhelming😭
it was just a lanyard in it for such a fat bag
did u go to both of the white tents?
wdym
there was two tents on memorial glade
public school budgets😔
a thin tote bag and a lanyard
need some funding fr
atleast there was beanies and sunglasses in the other tent
i kinda was led on since people already bought merch and stuffed it in their swag bag so i thought it was a lot
Damnnnnnn
The top tote is so fire tho
you could probably get like 2-3 full bags worth of freebies if u went to every single stand there
it is so fire bro
moment i saw it i had to get it
they weren’t lying about the protests in the stereotypes
i counted atleast 5 today
berkeley core
i wish i was still there
so cool
wtf
btw it seems like data science will not be gatekept nearly as hard as cs even tho it’s in the new college
the eecs majors in cal day are like almost nonexistent
W
can u make anyone uk in that program withdraw rn
their table was empty for the first hour
for no reason 
the data sci info session was packed lmfao
the protest during the chancellor welcome…
oh i didnt go lol, im not in yet 😔
went to the actual first best public uni in the bay's admitted day (sjsu 🔥 )
“rain or shine, protest or not…”
based guy
Same thing happened at ucla
where do i find the uc berkeley appeal form
It states that “Although SAT/ACT scores won't influence admissions decisions, Berkeley will consider them for placement or subject credit”.
What is this “placement and subject credit”?
I did input my SAT when applying, and it is asking me to submit my score (which I did), but I’m also curious on why if it is test blind. Also, what this placement or subject credit even is
do waitlist applicants have their sr yr grades considered (first or second semester) at all ?
test blind bc they were supposed to make a cali state-backed SAT but stopped funding the project midway
and the placement / subject credit iirc was mainly for intls to skip TOEFL
maybe it lets u skip rhet
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not committing
especially for data sci 
and for eecs 
and for applied math 
the lady screaming during the chancellors welcome was too funny
like are the stalls fully closed + locked or
I hope you know how weird that sounds
stfu
Yes
i can't find youtubers
A question about coed bathroom immediately followed up by a request for photographs
except for blackwell
im leaving bye
the showers are locked
how tasty is the shower mold
there’s no mold in ours
Our tour guide said privacy is good
They didn’t let you shower?
Anyone know the waitlist acceptance rate (and the one for cs if u know that one)
pretty sure the credits is for the entry level writing requirement (elwr), if you score a 3 or above on any ap english course and if you get a qualifying score of your SAT, you dont have to take the elwr
like wym
First year gen req math and English classes
If you get above like a 530-570 on either one you get places in the normal 1st year math class
anyone who got into eecs and is planning on not attending?
oh... I'm way above then lol
I wish I took AP
took IB instead 
Eh still counts
AP is sooo much easier
most subjects are a 3
while IB is a 5 HL 💀
berkeleycore is going from loving to hating it on a daily basis
skull
impostor
daily reminder to withdraw from berkeley if ur not committing
especially for data sci 
and for eecs 
and for applied math 
no thanks !
:(
wait r u data sci, eecs, or applied math?
then ur fine
so im none of those LOL
gl
tyty
Is getting cs 61a possible for l&s freshman in fall sem? Tryna see if its worth taking it this summer instead
Yeah
Was around at the college of engineering, sproul, student union, frat parties, block parties, college of letters and sciences
Just about everywhere
Do they take off wl by major or college?
it made me love berk even more
It convinced me to commit
no idea lol
i was around college of chem for the whole time
ikr it exceeded expectations fr
same
I got interviewed for a chemistry quiz with a group of friends
By the UC Berkeley insta people
Won a free college of chem shirt
is that the berkelium shirt
if theres a separate coc shirt and i didn't get it im gonna be so sad
How do yall meet other prospective students yall got group chats or something 😭
i just know the ppl from my school that are going 💀
Yeah
There’s a separate one
Just says Berkeley college of chemistry