Berkeley City College Campus is so gorgeous. I have seen students, staff, and teachers in friendly…read morecommunication. I felt comfortable in the college. I took ASL classes and digital photography classes for my major. Good coffee shops and restaurants are close to the Berkeley City College campus. I took the Bart from San Leandro to Berkeley College, and it's easy and fun. Thank you!

BCC is awful. I gave every one of my teachers a 1 star rating on Rate My Teacher .com…read more Administration has a policy of not hiring teachers with a good educational background. BCC teachers do not have doctorates even though UC Berkeley is right up the hill and full of professors who have doctorates and need the money from teaching. I believe Administration maintains this policy because they themselves have such a low bar for their administrators that they are too stupid, uneducated, and lazy themselves to be able to handle real professors at the college raising the bar and making the school a better place to learn. BCC is simply a holding pattern to screen students for UC Berkeley. BCC isn't there to help students learn. Each class is like sitting through detention. I will never attend BCC again even if my life depended on it. BCC SUCKS.

The Wright Institute in Berkeley is a great place to receive affordable mental health services…read more It is a private graduate school of psychology specializing in educating clinicians and giving them real world experience before they become professional therapists. These students have done all the course work and need hours in the field of psychology before they get their licenses. I have a therapist I see once a week for part of their semester and it resolves in July. These students are educated and can help you through phase of life challenges. This is my second time receiving counseling and previously I received therapy 10 years ago. They charge on a sliding scale and offer some stability during challenging times. They also offer group therapy sessions and you may drop in whenever your schedule permits and the cost is $15 per session. Although I have not partaken in the group therapy sessions, I have heard many good things about them and considering joining a few. What I like a lot about the Wright Institue is I feel as though the students really try hard and seem to care very much with what you're going through and are very helpful to help you process what your priorities are and what you hope to gain from the therapy sessions. Finding a therapist in the real world is as challenging as finding your partner in life so it can take a while. That's why I feel that the Wright Institute is a great way to get started in therapy. They're located near UC Berkeley campus and the parking can be challenging. But there is affordable metered parking up and down Durant Street and the duration is for 2-4 hours.

I can't give more than two stars for what is, unfortunately without a doubt, the biggest financial…read moreand temporal mistake of my life. But it is not all the WI fault, it is more the field. I'm writing this for the prospective student considering application. Please deeply consider your options. It's what you think you want until you get it, and let me tell you why. When you get out, which is not your whole journey, (you still have post doc work to do), there is not a plethora of opportunities. Again, it's not just the WI- the value of the education is vastly overpriced. If you don't get a job at Kaiser, you will be swallowed by them. Private practice, and the prices you will need to pay back your loan, CEUs, and live in this area, are virtually (figuratively and literally) a thing of the past. It is not possible to compete with the low rates a therapist from Kaiser charges, and the unethical practices (group therapy for individual presenting problems, HIPPA legally thrown out the window, etc) they get away with. Apps like Better Help will have you making just above what a Door Dasher makes as they saturate the field with the most minimum license above dog catcher to populate their therapist offerings. Because of the ethics of the field, you cannot effectively advertise, and getting clients from senior psychologists comes at the price of a referral fee. You're coming into a field that sees us as pawns. I don't agree with other reviews about it being white- centric. When I went applications to internships on them said "People of color STRONGLY encouraged to apply." Mm hm. If you cannot find whatever solace you need dead-center in the most liberal city in the most liberal field in the nation/world, may I recommend applying instead to a kindergarten program. I had some beautiful kind souls that taught me here, and one or two who were not a good fit. But some glaring gaps- it never taught me the DSM, and it didn't prepare me for licensure. I passed, but that was all on me; perhaps that is the final test to see if you are ready, but I would have preferred a smoother bridge to licensure. Please learn from my mistake: I was once you.

Do not get the bootcamps they offer. They just waste your time. They cancel on me twice. After they…read morehad me paying ahead of time they canceled on me when I only had $3,000 left to pay. Now they are making me wait 30-60 days until I get my full refund. That is not fair, they are making me pay for their mistakes. I am not happy. They have $5,765 of my money and they are holding it hostage. I am very upset about this. Please don't do it, don't let it happen to you! They cancel the course and they don't even tell you why. Don't trust Edx or 2U.

I would write 0 stars if I could. I was accepted into a…read morepost-graduate program while completing a pre-req at UCBx. I had read some bad reviews, so decided it would make sense to speak with someone in the Science Admin department who might have some insight and reassurances. I reached out and was confidently told the professors for extension classes are professional, responsive, and my experience would be positive and maintain a cohesive extension of the elite reputation UCB has earned over the years. 2 weeks into the course, the professor went dark. This was an online course, so her role was to grade and comment and respond to emails and questions. Pretty light work... which clearly she did not have time for. I had to email the admin to ask them to contact the professor to grade my assignments so i could be sure I was grasping material and producing the level of work I expected of myself. Weeks went by before anything was graded. Despite this, I received short, enthusiastic, and reaffirming messages. At least I was doing work at the standard required for success. This pattern continued and I completed all course work including tests, quizzes, case studies, and essays with a very strong A. It was time to take the final, and it was a mess. Questions were posed regarding non-existent drugs (or drugs so poorly spelled they could not be identified). Other questions were contradictory, or unintelligible. The format was such that you had to click through each page to get to the next question, but the time limit was so limiting that any strategy of working back through the test to answer short answer questions worth more points first was moot. In the end, i finished 42 of 47 questions. Had the 42 points alone been graded I would have received a B. Fine. The last 5 questions however, were worth about 20% of the entire test, but the ridiculous time limit made it impossible to click through 50 pages of questions and explanations, and then click back through unfinished questions. Suddenly, my B became a C. A C grade on the final, as stipulated in the syllabus, will fail you out of the entire class. I immediately emailed the professor after the test requesting a conversation. No response. I waited 24 hours. Emailed her again. No response. I emailed admin. They replied with a generic cut and paste answer as to how to check my grade online. This is educational dysfunction at its finest. I concurrently took another pre-req at UCSDx (scheduling conflicts required I take one at each place). I had a wonderful experience with a responsive professor and walked away with an A. Im a 3.9 student who simply does not randomly fail tests, let alone finals. I have 3 days to provide a deposit and letter of intent to my new program, but cant do so unless i get some assurance I wont be failed from this class because of an absolutely disastrous test strategy and an unresponsive apathetic professor and entire admin department of UCBx. AVOID AT ALL COST.

This review is based on two classes taken at Vista - one in the spring quarter of 2006 & one in the…read moresummer quarter of 2006. *NOTE: Vista has closed and re-opened about a block away as Berkeley City College. About a year ago, I became interested in ASL - Americal Sign Language. I took ASL I in the spring quarter of '06 and a finger-spelling class in the summer of '06. Both teachers were great - I learned a lot and have had lots of fun learning sign. My education in ASL continues at Berkeley City College. As part of the Peralta Colleges, Vista was a great community college in a good location in Berkeley. Want to further your education? Just want to take a class for fun? Check out (formerly Vista) Berkeley City College!

Does anyone have information regarding the financial aid department that was linked to fraud a few…read moreyears ago? A letter was sent to students -giving a deadline to respond; but I was so sick at the time. I misplaced the letter and now I am stuck with a loan that I did not even receive. Please help if you can. Respond to my email address: mary4797@sbcglobal.net

If I could go back in time I would go to school here. I enjoy the atmosphere which puts me in…read morelearning mode. The bookstore is comparable to walking into William and Sonoma or the Apple Store. It's a highly designed space.

I applied here twice as an African indigenous and Southwest Asian Christian only to get rejected…read more Arabic is literally my first language, and I was told that one didn't need to be Muslim to get accepted. Before I applied here, I was told by a Muslim professor that I should apply here as he would happily recommend me to study here. It sounded to be some sort of insincere sarcasm on his part. I believe they do not accept christians or if they actually do, maybe they should show in their social media non-Muslims.

I really appreciate my education from J. F. K. probably even more so now than when I was in school…read more I really learned a great deal from various artists and instructors that is still impacting not only my art, but my interactions with the community, my work, and life.

Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union is U.C. Berkeley's student union building. besides all the…read morestudent services this building holds, there's also space for a mini food court. food court open to the public, hours, m-f, 11-3 p.m. La Cocina alumnae begun popups here earlier in the year. will be here at least 2 more quarters. current lineup: -Noodle Girl; Vietnam, noodles and soup -Old Damamcus Fare: traditional Syrian Fare -Pink and Red's: soul food -A Girl Named Pinky: baked goods -El Meson de Violeta: Chilean empananda foodnotes: -metered parking nearby -similar foods not easily found elsewhere....

All Things Must Pass!!!! The weathered, yellow, tired old MLK student Union has been rehabbed and…read morefinally finished. Now, sporting loads of Windows on all sides, lots of chairs and tables, outlets ( of course), and mixed use, flanked by a new Student Store, an Amazon Locker room, & topped with Marin's Equator coffee, pizza,& a burger place. What a difference a few decades makes! Especially nice is the NW corner in which gorgeous logs are used for benches and art. The Bears Lair is no longer in this building, and finally, FINALLY!!! One can walk straight through the square to Zellerbach!

UC Berkeley should never, ever have graduations in the Greek Theater in the afternoon. We attended…read morea graduation that started at 2 pm and it was so sweltering hot that we could not stay for the whole ceremony. We were admonished to stay for the whole ceremony but if we did we would easily have a heat stroke. Delaying the ceremony a few hours later would make the ceremony tolerable. The public health graduation ceremony we attended today, indeed was not in the interest of public health.

Had a good time studying here. I enjoyed going deep into the stacks at Doe to read for hours in…read moreblissful silence. Many afternoons spent people watching in Sproul Plaza and cheering for the Bears on Saturdays in Memorial stadium. More people watching while sipping espressos at Cafe Roma. Getting lost in Dwinelle. Washing dish and mopping the floor at the sorority on Prospect Street. Making friends and pondering the future. You'll like it here.