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UC Berkeley is not for every student that is offered admission. Cal is about learning, not about having fun. The education at Cal is wonderful and challenging, even for the brightest students. The bureaucracy is a nightmare, and there is NO ESCAPING having to deal with that bureaucracy at some point in every semester. It's large, and largely impersonal, so the mistakes by the administration can be many, and the first and second tiers of administrative individuals you'll have to meet with in order to get anything resolved can be largely indifferent, sometimes passive-aggressive and hostile when they think you're smarter than them, and a few are even unbelievably inappropriate and wildly unprofessional. You really are a number here, especially in the lower division classes. It gets better when you finally get to the top tiers of administrative officials, but you have to go through the hierarchy before you see those more dedicated officials. The undergrad has to be tenacious and resilient in order to stay afloat here. Let me reemphasize that I said "stay afloat." That's not to be confused with succeeding. Success requires additional skills.UC Berkeley is NOT for every highly intelligent undergrad. It can be an extraordinary learning environment, and it can be a daunting and a significant drain on a student's time to navigate the bureaucracy. Let me say that a different way...it can be a pain in the ass to navigate the bureau-crazy. It is insane how bad it can be when something goes awry i.e. having an issue with your financial aid, or your professor forgets to include your final exam score when calculating your final grade for the class and you end up with a C instead of the A you actually earned. This is especially confusing for inexperienced Freshmen (it's considerably easier by senior year, because you get better at it over time). For a tree-hugging culture, there is a lot of paperwork involved when things need to be fixed. If there is a problem at the beginning of the semester (like financial aid), a student can fall behind in their studies very quickly because it can take so many hours spent over many days to get the issue resolved. It's not uncommon for the issue you thought had been resolved to have NOT been resolved properly, and then you get to start the process all over again. The hours that the administration offices are open are almost always conflicting with when students should be in class. Time management, tenacity, and resilience are key for not remaining discouraged at this university. A student must arrive with these skills in order to survive.There is no hand-holding at Cal. None. A teenager needs to be highly independent, emotionally mature, equipped with well-honed and dedicated study skills, and she/he needs to be highly self-directed and motivated to succeed. It's incredibly interesting and the lectures are given by professors who are the top researchers in any given field of study. I LOVED going to lecture. I loved going to sections, which were lead by grad students (known as GSIs or graduate student instructors). Exams are often comprehensive and challenging. Even the DeCal classes at Cal that I took were challenging (and those are the classes we take for fun because we're nerdy like that). Undergrads need to enter this university already knowing how to organize their thoughts and write well. The first day of classes is the first day of full-throttle lecture and although you don't have your books yet, because you've just received you syllabus in that class, you are expected to have the reading completed before the start of the next class, less than 48 hours later. That is true for EVERY class on the first day. The amount of reading required each semester is considerable and, with a full course load, almost too much to retain in the human brain. It is easy to fall behind very quickly if there is an unexpected illness, like the flu. If the student comes down with the measles, they are done for the semester and maybe the year. Excellent health is important to maintain a semblance of homeostasis at Cal, especially with the large number of students from around the world who attend. Students not only have to manage their education, but also balance that with staying healthy.Cantonese and Mandarin are heard and spoken as commonly, if not moreso, than English by the undergrad student population. It's been this way since 2007, at least. The Chinese students used to make fun of me, teasing me that I was probably offered admission to meet the quota for white students. (tip for Chinese guys...that's no way to score points with a hot blond white girl). I mention this because this is the kind of student population your competing against. It might not be politically correct to say it, but it is nonetheless true...the international Chinese student population has a level of dedication to studying and achievement that is culturally ingrained. Their parents are driving them to achieve by any means necessary and succeed in a way that is only closely matched by the Indian culture and American born Chinese culture. On Friday and Saturday nights, the libraries are a sea of shiny Asian hair and open books, and it's like that until closing time, every weekend, all semester long. Any student from any culture or background should be prepared to closely match that if they expect to succeed at Cal.The culture is decidedly academic and politically leftist. The academic resources are many, but you'll be so busy managing the course load that you'll have very little free time to take advantage of them. The libraries are fascinating to peruse, but you'll be so busy reading the academic journal articles your professor has compiled in your reader that you'll have very little interest in reading for fun. There are many clubs you can join, if you have the time. This is a walking culture because parking is a nightmare, so you'll need to be able bodied to get around campus easily and to make use of the non-paved shortcuts. Strangely, the local Berkeley transit system isn't as accessible as it should be for those in wheelchairs, and you can forget trying to get down the sidewalks around town in one. You can barely walk on the sidewalks because the tree roots have all destroyed them. Trees are more important than humans in Berkeley, even the disabled population. If you're a Nobel Laureate, the university will give you your own parking space on campus with a large NP in yellow paint across it. There is a Greek presence, intramural sports, and football and basketball games you can attend, not to mention water polo and others. Politically, this is no place for conservatives, unless you really like being alone, and I don't just mean the university, I mean the Berkely-Oakland-SF metro area. I say that as left-leaning, middle of the road independent. I can barely tolerate the extremely leftist political culture. I can't imagine how a true moderate or conservative individual would survive. The uber-liberal, pot-smoking, trans-loving, conservative bashing individual will be in their element both at this university and in the town. It's unique, for sure. It's not a place the vast majority of people will thrive living in.Cal is the only UC school that has the semester system. All other UCs are on the quarter system, and that is quick and dirty learning. There is no time to write a research paper during a quarter. It's fast, but it's easier, and you aren't required to commit to memory what you've learned, or at least not for very long. I can't imagine any student that would be drawn to UCLA or UCSB would even consider Cal seriously because the cultures are far more laid back at both of those UCs, especially UCSB. SoCal and NorCal are world's apart when it comes to culture, weather, attitudes. LA is a much more metropolitan area than San Francisco. LA has better beaches, museums, film, food, shopping, and is more physically active. SF is a small, sleepy city that is best suited to morning people who prefer to sit inside, read a book, and drink coffee, or maybe go on a hike in the Marin headlands. It's hard to get a good meal after 10 pm in SF because things close up early here, even on the weekends. If these two cities were siblings, LA would be the popular, laid-back, cool, attractive sister and SF would be the nerdy, intelligent, passive-aggressive sister who dresses comfortably, prefers cats, and sees the world through a feminist lens. LA is all sunshine and smog. SF is fresh air and fog. LA is the fun loving convertible. SF is the eco-friendly Prius. LA is confident, comfortable, and relaxed. SF is passive-aggressive, insecure and envious. I lived for 10 years in each area.Cal is a great school and an extraordinary research institution. It is definitely the crown jewel of the UC system, and it is funded by the Board of Regents accordingly (when compared to the other UC schools). You do have access to certain academic resources at Cal that you don't get at other UCs because it's a serious academic research institution. Yet, that kind of serious dedication to academic learning is not suited for most individuals. In fact, most would be UNhappy there, if not entirely unsuccessful. It's important to consider an individual student's strengths, weaknesses, and personality. If having fun is important to you, I can NOT recommend Cal. In fact, I'd recommend you go elsewhere. You can have fun at Cal, but it is NOT a fun school. If you crave intellectual discourse, political activism, prefer to walk instead of drive, and tend to be more serious and introverted than extroverted, this environment might be one you can thrive in, but you have to love learning and be naturally intellectually curious in order to thrive. If that last sentence describes you, I'd invite you to visit the campus, mid-week when school is in session. See if it feels like home. If not, trust your instincts and go elsewhere.It's also important to remember that the cost of housing in the SF Bay area is out of control compared to the rest of California, and you can thank the IT industry for that. Techies have, once again, taken over the bay area a la the mid 90s. Oakland is no longer the bargain it was back in 2005. Now it's even more expensive than Berkeley, thanks to hipsters. I'm beginning to wonder if staying in the dorms isn't the better bargain for undergrads now. When housing is scarce, students are the ones who suffer because they often can't afford market rents. At present, rent in and around UCLA is slightly more affordable than Berkeley and far more affordable than San Francisco.SYNOPSIS: UC Berkeley is for the rare student who is not only highly intelligent, but also driven to learn by their inherent intellectual curiosity. If you're a serious student who prefers to learn over having traditional fun, Cal is for you. Good luck, wherever you make your academic home~

My first year of undergrad was a pain in the ass.I didn't go out to any parties for an entire year. I only said hi to my mom and dad and brother, and didn't talk to them. I stayed up late until 2 am every day and woke up at 6 am for class the next day, and since I had classes on Saturdays this cycle continued for an entire year (no relaxing on Sundays). I slept at the bus to optimize time.I didn't go to a fancy school like MIT or Stanford, my school was actually placed in the slums of Peru. But I had to work at the 100 hour+ rhythm per week because my high school math and science education was terrible, and I had to catch up with people who were Math Olympiads and others also ended up going to Harvard and Brown for graduate school. I was just the average Joe who got in because I was a spoiled rich kid who had an International Baccalaureate Diploma, that bypassed the entire entrance exam.You see if you go to a place like Stanford and you graduate, you're pretty much set. As an employer for any job, or as a graduate admissions officer, I would not give a damn about what your GPA was, as long as you did something pretty awesome during you undergrad years that proves your apt for grad school or a job.But if you come from a small university in Peru that is highly competitive, but that no one outside of Peru knows its name, and you don't even make it to the top 3 students of your class, why would I hire you? You come from a no man's land. The thing is that I was with competing with the country's top 99.99% percentile; but that makes no sense to international authorities, because the college doesn't appear in the top rankings because it has no graduate school program (there are no serious grad programs school in Peru).Plus, I had to deal with professors that made tests barely solvable because they wanted their students to bribe them so that they could pass. The entire educational system was flawed, so I had to work my ass of to beat the system. For example, my Ordinary Differential Equations professor didn't know how to solve the questions he put on his test, he would just use MATLAB to get the answer. 80% of professors in Peru don't have PhD's they only have Bachelors's, just in case.This only lasted for a year, because then I found out that research could give me a better edge than just grades. My mental health was also terrible at the end of this phase. I ended up having self esteem issues, depression, bad eating habits, social anxiety, insomnia, and occasional hallucinations by sleep deprivation. The walls of my room ended up being scribbled with equations, like if I was some incarcerated lunatic.I've worked harder during that year than during my first quarter in graduate school, not because I am more lazy now (well maybe ;) ), but because I needed to. I needed to move to California for graduate school, and I had to be the best if I wanted to. It was do or die (or do and die!).It was worth it though. I started my PhD at UCSB, and I feel like the Andy of the Shawshank Redemption - every time I ride my bike on campus and see the ocean in Santa Barbara, CA. But I look back at that year, and it was the worst and best year of my life.

** Speaking as a former LMU pre-med student & tour guide who was actively involved in extracurriculars/leadership roles but still loved to party. Class of 2016**LMU is a mid sized campus. You're bound to see people you know at LEAST once a day but you also get to see people you've never met before. Happy medium!Your parents are paying a shit ton of money for you to attend this school. Have fun but please take it seriously too.LMU is a private school who wants their students to succeed so there are resources for almost any problem/question you have about academics, career, or financial aid imaginableParking is a bitch. Avoid leaving campus during rush hour. Seriously, don't do it.LMU health center (doctors office) gives you free cough drops, Advil, throat numbing lozenges, & tampons if you ask for them.Yes there are parties. But don't be expecting anything like UCSB & ASU every night. Once you hit junior or senior year though, almost everyone starts partying off campus cuz WHY NOT!? Santa Monica bars & Hollywood clubs are right around the corner :PEveryone starts realizing this their Senior year (or junior year) that LMU campus is probably one of the absolute BEST locations in Los Angeles. Go explore LA! Go on food adventures, visit museums, go to the beach, go party in someone's mansion in Beverly Hills, take a drive on PCH.. Just go do it all!Work on campus. I've had lots of on campus jobs. Easy work, clean environment, nice pay, & they're understanding about class schedules or tests.Don't transfer to USCIdk what ppl will say regarding LMU’s academics …But LMU students really do care about their grades. Study hard, most of the students don't fuck around so don't be the one who does, it's not worth it!