I got accepted to MIT and also got the Regents Scholarship for UC Berkeley for chemical engineering. I realize that the Regents perks (priority enrollment and housing, faculty advisor, networking) is, for the most part, available for all MIT students because it's a private school. MIT's financial package is affordable but still more expensive than instate tuition at Cal plus the minor Regents monetary award. I suppose my main concern is academic rigor. Is it harder to get a GPA high enough for grad school admission at Berkeley (with its bell curves and cutthroat competition) or at MIT (when surrounded by the top STEM students in the world)? I'm posting this on the Cal forum too to help me make my decision.
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