Berkeley?

[nyucknyuck]

Note: this is not to start a flame war.

A person and I have had a "discussion" on the views of Stanford students toward Berkeley students. I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a Cal student who thinks that Stanford students are "subpar" in any way. But I don't think it'd be too difficult to find a Stanford student who turns his nose up at

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[disquesinge]

I really don't think there is much of a rivalry from Stanford's side. Yeah some folks feel that way, I guess, but overall there isn't that much hostility I feel towards Cal

[nyucknyuck]

It's been a while since this was posted, but I feel more knowledge now in answering

[nyucknyuck]

knowledgeable*

screw nouns.

[thisfalseart]

In terms of what other people have said about how Cal students treat Stanford students, at times it gets quite bad. My ex-girlfriend goes to Cal and we were together for almost two years up here and whenever I went to go visit here, I was treated with quite a bit of hostility. On the other hand, when she came here, no one really minded

[nyucknyuck]

This was a while ago, but

[starinatdasun]

Just to echo back some stuff that's been said, the whole Cal stereotype that Stanford students are a bunch of rich kids is total bullshit and actually is one thing that really bothers me. Yeah, I know some pretty rich kids and there are some royal family affiliates, but I'd say the vast majority of my friends here couldn't afford to attend without a significant amount of aid. When it comes down to numbers, Stanford pretty consistently offers better financial aid than most colleges; they offered me by far the best package out of all of the schools I got into, most of which were UCs like Berkeley

[ieke85]

I agree with you 100% about the income levels of students here. It's just that we have rich donors. That doesn't reflect on the whole student body... or even most of it.

[staticsoliloquy]

Cal takes the rivalry more seriously than we do. So let that speaks for itself.

[ieke85]

For me, I think the rivalry comes as a retaliation against all the flak I get from Cail students. I went to the Big Game at Cal my freshman year and afterwards I hung out with a friend of mine (who's a Cal student) and the other Cal students threatened to pour beer on me because I was wearing my Stanford sweatshirt.

Here's a video that I think depicts the Cal side of the rivalry pretty well. It may be biased, but it's real footage:

http://www.stanford.edu/~whaas/

[ieke85]

Come to think of it, the making of this video in itself is a pretty good reflection on Stanford students' general views, too.