Or so he says...he told Howard Stern on Tuesday why he turned down "Berkeley" for Modesto Junior College...he supposedly has a 170 IQ.


Here's the clip:
https://soundcloud.com/okaydo1/jeremy-renner

Couldn't afford it. How expensive was Cal 28 years ago?

socaliganbear;842858455 said:

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Couldn't afford it. How expensive was Cal 28 years ago?

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His parents were divorced. His dad worked for Cal State. He's the eldest of 6 kids (though one of his brothers was born when he was 40).

I started at Cal 21 years ago. It still cost a lot of money to be a student. I mean, it wasn't the very low price that students in the 60s and 70s paid.

Interesting, if Renner attended Cal, he may have been on campus at the same time as other alumni actors, John Cho (Star Trek), Tim Kang (The Mentalist), and Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-O) all born between 1971-1973.

oskirules;842858466 said:

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Interesting, if Renner attended Cal, he may have been on campus at the same time as other alumni actors, John Cho (Star Trek), Tim Kang (The Mentalist), and Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-O) all born between 1971-1973.

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...and this guy, born in 1974.

okaydo;842858451 said:

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Or so he says...he told Howard Stern on Tuesday why he turned down "Berkeley" for Modesto Junior College...he supposedly has a 170 IQ.Here's the clip:https://soundcloud.com/okaydo1/jeremy-renner

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Who is Jeremy Renner, and does he like football?

I think he's in the Marvel action movies, but I wouldn't have pegged him for a Mensa stalwart based on his high school yearbook pic. The flat top mullet was pure late '80s magic, and he was rocking it, along with the sweater.

By the way, Moraga's right on. It was somewhere between $1,500 and $1,600 in tuition and fees per year for Cal in the 1989-90 academic year. There was a ton of student angst when it skyrocketed to about $3,300 per year by 1992-93.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/what-the-avengers-looked-like-in-high-school

okaydo;842858459 said:

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His parents were divorced. His dad worked for Cal State. He's the eldest of 6 kids (though one of his brothers was born when he was 40).

I started at Cal 21 years ago. It still cost a lot of money to be a student. I mean, it wasn't the very low price that students in the 60s and 70s paid.

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Agreed and The cost of housing was the killer even if tuition was relatively low. People were less enamored with student debt too.

ColoradoBear1;842858484 said:

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Who is Jeremy Renner, and does he like football?

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Renner rose to fame in the early '90s, playing a bumbling high school teenager who is unlucky at love in the film The Hurt Locker.

One of the best actors working today.

6bear6;842858527 said:

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One of the best actors working today.

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Was very good in The Hurt Locker, but even better in The Town, both Oscar nominated performances.

BearDevil;842858530 said:

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Was very good in The Hurt Locker, but even better in The Town, both Oscar nominated performances.

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Original Point Break, Heat, and The Town are my favorite bank robber movies. Hell or High Water and Baby Driver also did the genre proud.

Hell or High Water is very underrated. Chris Pine ain't no wannabe Bear with a mullet.

Well...don't know what the high school show he was in, but I know you're joking about the Hurt Locker...

[video=youtube;JIgEhiUVKh8][/video]

Did a couple of shows on Louie CK as a his coming of age drug dealing anti model a couple of years ago

NVBear78;842858496 said:

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Agreed and The cost of housing was the killer even if tuition was relatively low. People were less enamored with student debt too.

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It was as low as $250-$300/month at COOPs or in shared off-campus housing in many neighborhoods.

Cal88;842858561 said:

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It was as low as $250-$300/month at COOPs or in shared off-campus housing in many neighborhoods.

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I lived in the Coops for part of my time at Cal and know it was the lowest cost option. I paid my way through school with help from my parents on room and board for my last two years. It was not easy but was doable in the late 70's though I had to go the JC route for the first two years.

Just saying that it was not a piece of cake for everyone to afford College.

And the pride of the Fred C. Beyer High School in Modesto (class of 89/90?). Also from Beyer... Timothy Olyphant, Class of 1986, who went to USC on a water polo or swimming scholarship before turning to acting. Great guy, by the way, who has attended every reunion we've had, including our 30th last summer. Two pretty good actors from a high school in Modesto. Not one pro football or basketball player ever came out of our high school that I know of.

Affordable if you go back far enough. I went to Modesto JC from 1969 to 1971 and then transferred to Cal. Tuition at Cal then was $212/quarter (still quarter system then) and where I lived the room and board was $900 for the year. My summer job for several years was as office manager for a fruit packing company and that plus doing the financial statements at the end of the year, plus a bonus, paid my way through Cal, with money left over. Given the cost of attending Cal today I can't imagine my experience then being even remotely possible today. I was grateful then and still grateful decades later.

Not really relevant to Cal but Renner has also, for some time now, been renovating and flipping houses and has made millions of dollars. Even now with his success I think he is still doing it.

and then there are those of us who are REALLY old.
Tuition was $28.50 a semester when I was here.
grad 1963

I received a state of CA scholarship my first year. thankfully.

my older bro/18 months older, was also attending Cal so my parents had to plan on double tuition.

I worked during the summer at various jobs to help with tuition/books.

State tuition didn't really start exploding until around 2002. That's when things got really nuts.

BearDevil;842858534 said:

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Hell or High Water is very underrated. Chris Pine ain't no wannabe Bear with a mullet.

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It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, so I not sure I would say it was very underrated. I agree it was a great movie and Pine gave a great performance.

okaydo;842858459 said:

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His dad worked for Cal State.

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What's "Cal State?"

barabbas;842858682 said:

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What's "Cal State?"

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It's the university system that Berkeley is the crown jewel of...

[video=youtube;BqCh836b25w][/video]

MoragaBear;842858680 said:

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Underrated in the sense that it didn't reach a big audience. It only earned 27m domestically.

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Oh, I see. I was not aware that it had such limited distribution. That is too bad that more people did not get a chance to see the movie.

hanky1;842858656 said:

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State tuition didn't really start exploding until around 2002. That's when things got really nuts.

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Yes indeed. The first big spike came earlier though, in 1990.

Non-resident tuition rise was even more dramatic, it now stands at $45k and was less than 1/10th of that back when I matriculated as an undergrad.


I'm not sure if there is any other major expense or asset class that has risen more sharply than the cost of college education:



though UC tuition tracked closely the rise in CA real estate (graphed here as the median CA house price):

This is nothing less than a naked hijacking of a Jeremy Renner thread.

bearister;842858781 said:

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This is nothing less than a naked hijacking of a Jeremy Renner thread.

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Speaking of hijacking a thread and speaking of an underrated movie that's connected to Berkeley (the city), Captain Fantastic is supposedly good. It's on Netflix.

Matt Ross (the actor from Silicon Valley and Big Love) directed this film, which earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen.


[video=youtube;D1kH4OMIOMc][/video]



Matt Ross is one of the many creative types who call Berkeley their home. Unlike all you unappreciative haters, he actually likes Berkeley -- even if it means commuting to Los Angeles in his Prius.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/04/15/matt-ross-may-play-a-greedy-tech-titan-in-silicon-valley-but-in-berkeley-hes-just-a-regular-guy/

okaydo;842858783 said:

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Speaking of hijacking a thread and speaking of an underrated movie that's connected to Berkeley (the city), Captain Fantastic is supposedly good. It's on Netflix.

Matt Ross (the actor from Silicon Valley and Big Love) directed this film, which earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen.


[video=youtube;D1kH4OMIOMc][/video]



Matt Ross is one of the many creative types who call Berkeley their home. Unlike all you unappreciative haters, he actually likes Berkeley -- even if it means commuting to Los Angeles in his Prius.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/04/15/matt-ross-may-play-a-greedy-tech-titan-in-silicon-valley-but-in-berkeley-hes-just-a-regular-guy/

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Captain Fantastic was a great movie. Viggo is one of my favorite actors.