Find Out Your Chances of Admission at University of California - Berkeley
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About UC Berkeley
The roots of the University of California go back to the gold rush days of 1849, when the drafters of the State Constitution, a group of vigorous and farsighted people, required the legislature to "encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement" of the people of California. These early planners dreamed of a university which eventually, "if properly organized and conducted, would contribute even more than California's gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations."
The university that was born nearly 20 years later was the product of a merger between the College of California (a private institution) and the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College (a land grant institution). The College of California, founded by former Congregational minister Henry Durant from New England, was incorporated in 1855 in Oakland. Its curriculum was modeled after that of Yale and Harvard, with the addition of modern languages to the core courses in Latin, Greek, history, English, mathematics, and natural history. With an eye to future expansion, the board of trustees augmented the college's Oakland holdings with the purchase of 160 acres of land four miles north, on a site they named Berkeley in 1866. This original tract was to be considerably expanded over the years.
Students have a wide variety of housing choices at Berkeley. The campus guarantees housing to new students who are admitted to the fall semester and meet the housing application deadline. Most residence halls offer dining facilities, seminar/study rooms and on-site academic services such as tutoring, advising, and computing assistance. In addition, the campus maintains over 1,000 apartments for students who are married, single parents, or domestic partners. Also available are "theme houses" that combine residential living with a particular academic focus and nearly 3,500 spaces in student cooperatives, fraternities, and sororities.
Berkeley has over 400 campus organizations. Cal students can join the Marching Band, the Cal Hang Gliding Club, radio station KALX, ethnic associations, humor and literary magazines, debate team, and a variety of cultural and political groups.
A large percentage of Cal Berkeley students take Berkeley's public service mission to heart. Cal Corps Public Service Center coordinates a wide variety of programs for students who want to volunteer for a community organization, work with an established campus group such as Cal Berkeley Habitat for Humanity or Raza Recruitment and Retention Center, or pursue internship opportunities to supplement their classroom experience. The Berkeley Career Center is another resource for internships, both in the corporate and nonprofit arenas.
Cal students can also take advantage of a variety of on-campus lectures, concerts, forums, seminars, festivals, plays, exhibits, and films offered by world-acclaimed scholars and performers. In addition, a host of arts, entertainment and sports activities are within minutes from campus in San Francisco, Oakland and other surrounding Bay Area communities. Downtown Berkeley, a short walk from campus, offers four movie theaters, highly-regarded theater, live music, artist cooperatives, and many other cultural venues.
Berkeley is a member of the PAC-10 Division I Conference and offers a full range of men's and women's intercollegiate sports. Cal has a comprehensive intramural sports program, offering everything from coed flag football to martial arts.