WELCOME TO BERKELEY and we need your confidence

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Some of our applicants may hesitate to take our offer, in fear of the possible decline and financial deficit in the university. I think it's time to counteraction the pessimism and make our voice heard. We need you.

As many of our very-talented, outstanding prospective students have noted, public schools are taking the siege of staggering budget cuts recently from the financial crisis. There are rumors even prescribing epitome for public giants like Berkeley, predicting its irreversible decline. Pessimism looms somewhere for some of us, but we really should take a closer look, and not so-readily join the buy-into.

Berkeley, as the most prestigious public school and most renowned research center on the planet, had weathered predicaments in its history of 142 years, many of which are even worse. Then 1929 great recession didn’t kill her, only to make her flourish ever after. Plus, the fiscal difficulty will almost only affect the undergraduate body, one that depends more on operation, teaching and endowment.

For graduate research, public schools like Berkeley have steady contracts with federal government, which says it will boost innovation as response to an increasing global competition, and many other private companies as well. In fact, fundings injected to Berkeley from DOE (Department of Energy) has only increased lately, in part because of a alumni relation (Physicist Steve-Chu) in its head. Berkeley has also decided to provide even larger support for its incoming students, along with an ambitious multi-billion fund-raising campaign to endow its besieged faculty against attack from private counterparts (Stanford, MIT and Harvard).

In the Chancellor’s most recent reply to the pessimism, Berkeley has also decided to launch a investment company to operate its funding, making it less dependent on State support onwards. Berkeley aims to serve its state people as promised, and to help its research keep thriving. It’s the leadership in this University that makes it sturdy, vigorous and die-hard, like in the days of Great Recession, when similar naysays loom. It’s also us, diligent, smart and committed scholars that make this university great.

So please stay faithful, and make your application to us, one that has enjoyed its sustained academic excellence for more than 100 years and it will continue to do so for the next century to go.

As far as Research and Academic Reputation, Berkeley has only grown stronger even in hard times:

In 2010, NRC ranks Berkeley first, tied (sometimes dominant) with either Harvard, Princeton or MIT in almost all of major disciplines, like Math, Physics, Chemistry, Social Sciences, Humanity and some of Engineering, being also the only university that has so many Phd programs ranked top 10 in the nation. Unlike other institutions, its excellence comes from all over (but it's not an elite school, unlike private HYPs), so are its competitors. In academia Berkeley's reputation is indisputable. And it will be short eye-sighted to subordinate it to HYP elites, because of its superficial lower rankings due to teaching, endowment and industry revenue.

From a most recent (2010) research and reputation index ranking, done by Times Higher Education, we see a confident performance within academia of our university against looming despair and a severe disparage from private institutions in popularity College ranking, in such a hard time.

2010 THES RANKING for international Research and Academic Reputation. You will see Berkeley is highly reputed almost every discipline cross Engineering, Sciences and Humanity

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITIES 2010

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/engineering-and-IT.html#score_RI%7Csort_ind%7Creverse_false

1 California Institute of Technology 98.6

2 University of California Berkeley 97.4

3 Stanford University 96.7

4 Carnegie Mellon University 95.4

5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 95.2

6 University of Oxford 94.3

7 Georgia Institute of Technology 93.9

8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 93.7

9 University of Cambridge 93.6

10 Imperial College London 92

LIFE SCIENCES UNIVERSITIES 2010

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/life-sciences.html#score_RI%7Csort_ind%7Creverse_false

Yale University United States 97

Harvard University United States 96.5

Stanford University United States 95.4

University of California Berkeley United States 94.9

Imperial College London United Kingdom 94

University of Oxford United Kingdom 92.6

Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 91.9

Johns Hopkins University United States 91.9

University College London United Kingdom 90.7

Cornell University United States 90.4

PHYSICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITIES 2010

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/clinical-pre-clinical-health.html#score_RI%7Csort_ind%7Creverse_false

California Institute of Technology United States 99.2

University of California Berkeley United States 97.9

Harvard University United States 97.7

Stanford University United States 97.5

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland 95

Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 94.9

Princeton University United States 93.7

University of Cambridge United Kingdom 92.6

University of Oxford United Kingdom 92.4

University of Tokyo Japan 91

SOCIAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITIES 2010

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/social-sciences.html#score_RI%7Csort_ind%7Creverse_false

University of Michigan United States 98.5

Harvard University United States 98.3

University of California Berkeley United States 97.8

Stanford University United States 97.1

University of Oxford United Kingdom 96.7

University of Cambridge United Kingdom 96

University of Chicago United States 95.5

Princeton University United States 94

University of California Los Angeles United States 92.9

Yale University United States 92.4

ARTS AND HUMANITIES UNIVERSITIES 2010

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/arts-and-humanities.html#score_RI%7Csort_ind%7Creverse_false

Stanford University United States 94.7

University of California Berkeley United States 93.7

Harvard University United States 92.9

University of Oxford United Kingdom 92.2

University of Cambridge United Kingdom 92

University of Chicago United States 91.8

Princeton University United States 91.7

University of California Los Angeles United States 91.3

Rutgers the State University of New Jersey United States 89.8

University of Toronto Canada 89.6

And in most recent 2010 ARWU by shanghai jiaotong University, Berkeley ranks 2nd in research, topped only by Harvard, and followed by Stanford, MIT, Caltech. As the only public school on top, this is not just phenomenal, but impressive already.

So, throw away the naysays, break down the seducing but facile offers from the enemy, join the rich and prominent research body at Berkeley. In hard times, it would be the most loyal and rewarding choice you will ever make.

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REFERENCE: What makes berkeley great?

http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/ROPS.Breslauer.BerkeleyGreatness.1.19.2011.pdf

Berkeley will remain great

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/24_ucbrip.shtml

[AppPsycholinX]

I love Berkeley. I hope I can get into

[stupidcat]

What is this Berkeley, never heard of it.

[wtncffts]

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BTW, I applied there.

[SyntheticOrganiker]

This doesn't seem like a real thing, but anyways, the stipend from Berkeley is really not on par with other offers from other schools. Berkeley is an expensive place to live and I don't want to join the throngs of hobos

[tso123d]

This doesn't seem like a real thing, but anyways, the stipend from Berkeley is really not on par with other offers from other schools. Berkeley is an expensive place to live and I don't want to join the throngs of hobos

Are you referring to the base stipend or to any additional support offered (i.e.fellowships, etc)? In terms of the base stipend, I didn't get the impression that Berkeley's offer was all that different from most other schools I heard from, crudely adjusting for cost of living. But maybe I'm underestimating how expensive the area is...

Edited January 29, 2011 by tso123d

[cautiouslyoptimistic]

This doesn't seem like a real thing, but anyways, the stipend from Berkeley is really not on par with other offers from other schools. Berkeley is an expensive place to live and I don't want to join the throngs of hobos

Actually it is real, and Berkeley's stipend is comparable to most top programs.