Hey you, is Berkeley a nice city? Thinking about going to college there
It's awesome, but the real thing is that it's a college city.
Meaning you can get student benefits at a bunch of restaurants, and get Cal paraphernalia anywhere. And CAL is the best public university in the US, so it's a good choice.
it's also a very pretty place. I've lived here my entire life, and my sister got Spring Admit at CAL, and she loves it. Now, technically I don't live in Berkeley, I live 10 minutes away in Albany, a tiny city to the east, But I could bus to Cal in like 20 minutes, so yeah.
But, you can't just say, "I want to go to CAL". You have to earn it. You need a great GPA and you need to ace 'dem SAT's, man.