Thanks guys!
You gave me great points to think about.
I actually visited Stanford and Berkeley a few months ago and got a pretty good feeling of what you said about the different campus atmospheres.
Stanford is indeed more business-oriented and people there seem very focused on achieving goals. Berkeley seems more 'fun fun fun' and 'academic'.
The professors I've met were GREAT in both schools, extremely nice and professional so I really can't really rely on that as well for my decision.
Regarding the Quals, I dont really care for that because generally believe that if you really want to make it, you will (50% pass in the first time + 75% on the second time means that only 12.5% of the admits are left out and my guess is that most of them didn't really want to spend 5 years into PhD and wanted to 'exit' with a MA).
Another question though. Regarding entrepreneurship, do you really think that Berkeley isn't a good place for that compared to Stanford? I saw they have their own entrepreneurs community (on the web at least) and they do have a very good B-school. Why do you think Stanford is a better place for this?
Thanks again!!!