Help! Can't Decide - USC vs UCLA vs UCSD

sentimentGX4
Sat, 28 May 2011 02:59:14 +0000

joewasabi:

i don’t think UCLA’s great representation at top med schools has anything to do with the caliber of students or quality of education received.

This line of thinking is flawed. Why wouldn’t more talented students aspire for better degrees? Also, the gap between representation in the universities is so significant that I don’t think any amount of “career-oriented mentality” could explain the difference. The fact that this extends not only to top med schools but law schools and business schools as well points to the fact that UCLA as a school in general does things better.

Does what better? I’m not trying to answer the question as you frame me to be doing. I’m not asserting that UCLA necessarily provides a better education or has better students. Perhaps UCLA is more “prestigious” and the adcoms arbitrarily prefer its students? Perhaps UCLA bribes top schools? Who knows or cares?

However, the ends is more important than the means and the fact that UCLA students are more successful professional school candidates cannot be brushed aside.