Berkeley is in Alameda County and is one of the best places to live in California. Living in Berkeley offers residents an urban suburban mix feel and most residents rent their homes. Many young professionals live in Berkeley and residents tend to be liberal. The public schools in Berkeley are highly rated.

Stanford University has a higher submitted SAT score (1,505) than UC Berkeley (1,430). UC Berkeley has more students with 42,501 students while Stanford University has 17,381 students. Stanford University has more full-time faculties with 3,533 faculties while UC Berkeley has 1,754 full-time faculties.

UC Berkeley ranks higher than UCLA in all of the global surveys of academic prestige.

The distinction between the University of California schools and the Ivy League colleges can be most clearly seen by comparing the UC system’s two most famous members — UC Berkeley and UCLA — to the Ivy League. UC Berkeley is the engineering powerhouse of the group.

Berkeley students are very smart and super competitive and will eat each other just to get an A. Berkeley is one of the dream schools for many Asian parents.

Getting accepted to Berkeley can be tough. How hard is it to get into Berkeley? In 2019-2020, UC Berkeley received 87,394 applications, and it admitted 14,668 of those applicants, for an acceptance rate of 16.7%.

After mining through their data, CMB discovered both male and female Harvard students are the most liked here in the Hub, with men receiving a 33.1 percent “like” rate and women a 32.4 percent. On a national scale, Harvard men fell to third in attractiveness, losing to the gents at Princeton and Duke.