An excerpt from Pete's blog regarding the Rhode Scholar at UC Berkeley. To all you IVY league fools - you have never, nor will ever understand just exactly what it means to receive a 4.0 at UC Berkeley (schools like Yale and Harvard are on a virtual A to B- range. If you completely fuck up, you MIGHT get a B-.). It is possibly the single hardest thing to do at any institution. Period.

"Berkeley Student gets the Rhodes scholarship---and all it takes is to graduate in less than four years with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science and business management, a 4.0 GPA (with none of that Ivy League or Stanford inflated GPA stuff) plus extracurriculars like forming a non-profit organization to close the technology gap for poor local youth, starting an engineering journal and not to mention an online business. If they had told me that's all it takes I woulda done it already."

Case in point: If you get a 4.0 at Berkeley for even just one semester, they're so impressed with you they mail you a $100 dollar check. No joke. It's that hard.