"Seniors at UC Berkeley, the nation's premier public university, got an F in their basic knowledge of American history, government and politics in a new national survey, while students at Stanford University didn't do much better, getting a D.

Other poor performers in the study were Yale, Duke, Brown and Cornell universities. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was the tail-ender behind Cal, ranking 50th. The No. 1 ranking went to unpretentious Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn."

we beat cal! hehe

interesting, i was listening to npr last night where they were rehashing this statistic, and it was a bit biased b/c they asked experts from berkeley and cal that said that we have a higher percentage of pre professional students who are so highly specialized in their education that going to college isn't going to increase their knowledge of american civics. i agree, going to stanford didn't help my knowledge of the New Deal or the political parties in Iraq.

article here.