<p>Good job disguising this as an advice thread!</p>
<p>You have your anecdotal experience saying your UCLA degree didn’t help. I have my experience saying going to Berkeley most definitely helped me get into grad schools. I was offered interviews at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, UCSF, Cornell, UPenn, & Johns Hopkins. I met a lot of students from Ivies, lot of students from Berkeley, and one or two from UCLA/UCSD. Not a single recruit or current student went to one of the lower UCs (or USC).</p>
<p>Stop spreading stupid lies, please. If you are an average student, maybe the college you go to doesn’t matter. But for anyone intelligent who actually cares about their education, it ABSOLUTELY matters what college you go to.</p>