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I think U Chicago is a top tier school but I don't understand what you mean about Berkeley. UC Berkeley has a low standard of instructors? It is usually in the

• mooreds 12y ago
  Not sure. Maybe parent was making a joke?
• geebee 12y ago
  I'm a little bewildered by this as well... it didn't sound like a joke, but I may be missing it. Perhaps this is a reference to the higher undergraduate student/faculty ratio, and the greater difficulty in getting access to faculty at the undergrad level? I'm not sure what departments would be considered weak at Berkeley - according to the National Research Council, Berkeley has the most graduate departments in the top 10 of any university. Then again… Berkeley and elite private research universities tend to have similar numbers of grad students, and of course access to professors is much higher for PhD students than undergrads. Berkeley has a lot of problems, largely stemming from having a very large number of undergraduates (and a higher percentage of low income students) than most private elite research institutions (there are substantial social benefits to this as well), but quality of faculty is probably Berkeley's strongest suit.