Watch a webcast of an entire semester of A&P, Chemistry, or Biology from UC Berkeley.

Anyone else find the smug attitude gets old after a while? "You're students in U-Cal Berkeley. That means you're smart. Very smart. And everyone in this room is just as smart or smarter than you are."

I really wonder what those reports mean and how accurate they are. I had read on another post that some smaller/private schools refuse to participate in them.

While UCB was #21 in that report, it was #1 in the US News and World Report for "Top Public National Universities" for the same year. huh?

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col..._pub_brief.php


I guess I find it strange that the same school can be ranked so differently by the same reporting organization. I think that goes to show that those reports don't hold very much weight to individuals unless you absolutely understand all components of it and know why you are choosing the school.