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Originally Posted by angelstar819
YES, UCLA is a beautiful campus with LOVELY brick buildings. Everyday when I walk to my classes, I enjoy the great architecture on campus. I'm sorry for giving you the wrong impression..I definitely have no regrets for choosing UCLA over Berkeley. I really like it here--the food's awesome, there's wonderful professors who care around teaching, and the people are great. Plus, being from SoCal, I wanted to be close to home. Although Berkeley's the number one public university in the nation, after visiting there, I didn't feel like I could fit in there. There were bums surrounding the campus which made me feel insecure and not to mention the awful smell. It used to be that UCLA is more competitive than Berkeley because of its nice campus, but now I think it's the other way, probably because of Berkeley's prestige and rankings. Gosh, I hope I can survive all four years here as a Biology major...
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I know exactly what you're talking about, but that is a very specific area, which is not accurately representative of the city of Berkeley itself. I can understand how many prospects and matriculated students are thrown off by the display of homelessness on Telegraph, when most of them come from the suburbs. Cal, too, is a beautiful campus, but its appearance differs from UCLA enough to not make an accurate comparison. I miss it.