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<p>Here’s how people from my school (in Irvine) perceive the UCs</p>

<p>UCI- last resort school, no one wants to stay back in Irvine aka the bubble, but many do end up going here…</p>

<p>UCR- considered a last resort school as well, lower tier students go here from my school</p>

<p>UCD- good for sciences and engineering, not many people are interested unless they get in nowhere else because of the area its in (cow town)</p>

<p>UCSD- chill school, great academics, everyone loves the area, but not talked about too much</p>

<p>UCSB- party school, awesome campus, hot girls, but not for the academics</p>

<p>UCLA- the most sought after of all the UCs for its academics, its location, life, sports teams, etc. </p>

<p>UCB- hardcore academics, the more politically active ones from my school go here, considered most prestigious of the UCs</p>

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<p>UC System:
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, UC Merced, UCSF</p>

<p>CSU System:
Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Chico, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Fresno State, Cal State Fullerton, Humboldt State, Long Beach, CSULA, Cal Maritime, Monterey Bay, Northridge, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, Sacramento, San Bernardino, SDSU, SFSU, SJSU, San Marcos, Sonoma, Stanislaus</p>

<p>Private Schools:
Stanford, CalTech, Mudd, USC, Pepperdine, USF, USD, Chapman, URedlands, UPacific, etc. times about a million</p>

<p>Yeah, if you want to come to CA, it would be hard to not find a school you like…</p>

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<p>OK, I need to post this. UC Davis is much more than a “cow town” with a good science dept. UCD is the only UC located in a true college town. Without UCD, the city of Davis would not exist; everything revolves around UCD! UCD has an amazing all around atmosphere, a great campus, a good balance of academics and social life, and is in a town w/ more than enough going on (w/ Sacramento and Tahoe close by as well). UCD is no “last resort.” It might be my favorite UC; I’d love to attend UCD. Go Aggies!!!</p>

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<p>lol schoolisnotforfools, those 2 girls are my classmates :)</p>

<p>god help me if i had 2 daughters at 17rs old *gasp</p>

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<p>the moral of the story is…California has some kick ass schools.</p>

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<p>It’d make for some interesting college essays…:P</p>

<p>Yea, I’m in CA - going through all the schools here would be a pain x 12. Personally, I think Stanford is easily the most prestigious school in the state, although I am a big fan of the UC’s.</p>

<p>Lot’s of cali schools.</p>

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<p>i’d love to go to a UC school</p>

<p>but oh well, ive already been accepted to a school</p>

<p>NYU CLASS OF 2010!!!</p>

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<p>OHIO:</p>

<p>Ohio State: Better academic reputation recently, Buckeye Football, A lot to do</p>

<p>Ohio U: Party School, pretty, journalism</p>

<p>Miami U: Good Academics, pretty, wealthy</p>

<p>Bowling Green: STDs, teaching/education</p>

<p>Kent State: Kent Read, Kent Write= Kent State, nursing</p>

<p>Cincinnati: Dirty, Ghetto</p>

<p>Akron: City, dirty</p>

<p>Toledo: dirty</p>

<p>Case Western: small, nerdy</p>

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<h2>Please don’t hate me :slight_smile: Anyway, these are completely stereotypical observations from myself, people at my high school, and some common observations I’ve seen on College Confidential. </h2>

<p>UC Berkeley: Formally a left-wing politically active school, this has changed with the influx of Asian students and hippies choosing UCSC instead. Now, Berkeley, is a prestigious, hard core academically oriented school with a cutthroat environment. Students will sometimes sabotage each others work in order to get ahead in class.</p>

<p>UC Davis: A top school for agriculture related majors. Most of the students here are mellow, and more academically oriented than not. The town of Davis is dull, causing many Bay Areans to commute home on the week, or stay in Davis and resort to drinking.</p>

<p>UC Irvine: Somewhat dull area of the state. Known for it’s Asian majority, most students live within the LA/OC area and thus either commute to school or go home on the weekends, leading to low school spirit and lack of a real school community. </p>

<p>UC Los Angeles: A very well respected school with great academics. Environment is somewhat less cutthroat than Berkeley, and students are more socially active than their Berkeley counterparts as well. Most students are from the local area, and the large population makes it a bit difficult for people to make friends. Big sports school. Have a bizarre obsession to one-up USC at everything. </p>

<p>UC Riverside: Not much known about UCR here, except that it is for those who want a “UC” name on their diploma but got rejected to all of the other UC schools. Generally thought of as a commuter school in a plain and unimpressive part of the state.</p>

<p>UC San Diego: A great school for the sciences, filled with students who are socially inept. Free time is spent either studying or locked in your dorm room playing computer games. Though near the beach, the campus culture doesn’t give off a “Classic SoCal” feel like other SoCal beach schools. </p>

<p>UC Santa Barbara: A school filled with upper class Abercrombie-wearing airhead Caucasians from the LA and OC area. People do nothing but party all the time, and academics takes a back seat. Those who don’t take part in are looked down upon.</p>

<p>UC Santa Cruz: UCSC has taken Berkeley’s place as being the rallying point for left-wing politically active students. High rate of marijuana smoking and defying the administration. In my high school, considered a safety for those who couldn’t make it into Davis.</p>

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<p>rc251, great post, i liked the nuances of it :)</p>

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<p>“the moral of the story is…California has some kick ass schools.”</p>

<p>Yeah, well right across the border, Nevada has some schools with a reputation for being of the lower end. </p>

<p>UNLV= party school with used to be good athletics with a principal/president pushing for a rise in academics
UNR (Reno)= party school (basically thats all I’ve ever heard about UNR)</p>

<p>And thats about it, unless you count all the community colleges</p>

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<p>lol Nevada needs to get its own Stanford in the middle of Las Vegas</p>

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<p>well I’m in Georgia…</p>

<p>UGA- Party school with great athletics and school spirit. Also located in the nation’s best college town (Athens). Student body mostly consists of Georgians. Pretty good academics and admissions is getting tougher.</p>

<p>GA Tech- Great for engineering/technology and business. VERRRRY cutthroat environment. Full of computer nerds and WAY too many dudes.</p>

<p>Emory- Excellent and expensive private school full of preppy rich kids. Excellent medical and business schools.</p>

<p>GA State- umm…The campus isn’t really a campus…it’s just spread throughout Atlanta so it may be hard for students to adjust. Alot of commuter students also.</p>

<p>GA Southern- party school in boring old Statesboro. Alot of people from my school go there because of the low admission standards. Alot of diversity and it’s growing every year.</p>

<p>Morehouse College(all male) and Spelman College (all female)- Two of the most prestigious historically black colleges with joint programs with schools such as GA Tech. Morehouse has a well-recognized medical school also.</p>

<p>Agnes Scott College- All female school. Don’t really know much else about this school.</p>

<p>Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)- Alot of people from my school going there also…it’s an art school so there’s really not much more I can say about it. Like GA State’s campus, the campus is spread throughout Savannah</p>

<p>those are the only ones worth mentioning in my opinion</p>

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<p>(to add to the last post)
I’m from a rich white republican public school in GA…</p>

<p>UGA - Academics haven’t improved for years, but it’s getting tougher to get in. Most people with 1200-1270 SAT’s or light coursework (no AP’s) have gotten deferred. Everybody has been going to Athens to get wasted since junior year in high school; has a good indie scene.</p>

<p>GA Tech - Extremely heavy workload. Everyone one knows tech is the place where fun comes to die, but still everyone applies for its name. Some get kicked out for playing video games too much and not studying. The girls are few and repulsive but people line up behind them at parties. Frats are the only option for a semblance of a social life but it’s like buying your friends. Kids at Tech are boring and stare at the ground when you walk by them.</p>

<p>Emory - People talk about NYU more than Emory, but it has a great reputation.</p>

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<p>I’ll spend a little sentence on the Cal State School.</p>

<p>With the exception of Cal Poly SLO, nobody really gives a crap about the Cal states, although most people in my school go there just to go to college.</p>

<p>I’m done :)</p>

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<p>Arizona</p>

<p>ASU: huge party school but in a great area (Phoenix)…with beautiful weather (who wouldn’t like a tan all year round?)…also the honor college is a hidden gem among the massive amount of academic choices…</p>

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<p>are there any other Arizona schools worth mentioning?</p>

<p>just curious</p>

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<p>UT-Austin- population the size of a town…32,000+…no joke, located in Austin (make what you will out of that), great reputation outside of Texas…party school, good music scene, Plan II (honors program) is considered to be rigorous…I heard that many people don’t graduate in four years though, that is why they have a huge population…and yes, there are other UTs in Texas, but UT-Austin seems to overshadow them all if you don’t look hard enough…</p>

<p>Texas A&M- I don’t mean to make generalizations, but the location is not so great…located in “hick town”, pretty conservative, is UT Austin’s rival in football…you are either an Aggie or Longhorn, not so well respected outside of texas like UT-Austin, but their engineering program is very rigorous…</p>

<p>Baylor- More conservative than even Texas A&M, religiously affiliated, but it doesn’t choke the life out of you…great academics at a good price, but would not recommend to a minority seaking to explore “diversity”…location is in Waco, people on a regular basis take road trips to Houston almost every weekend…</p>

<p>Texas Southern University- Historically black, located in Houston, but it seems like they are always hanging out at University of Houston’s campus rather their own campus, lots of strict dorm rules and rules in general in campus life…</p>

<p>Prarieview- historically black, located in the middle of nowhere, good school spirit considering their isolation</p>

<p>University of Houston- pretty good size considering it’s a public school around 25,000 students, located in downtown houston near Third Ward (not so good neighborhood), dorms are crappy, there are some good professors, some bad professors, and some that don’t speak english very well, it all depends on the luck of the draw…not so great on financial aid,though…DIVERSE POPULATION, most of the percentages for each race are pretty even, so I have a little bit of everyone…</p>

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<p>ummm…the U of Arizona…it is not as good academically as ASU…although it has a great business school…I personally don’t care much for Tucson…where U of A is located because of the MAJOR influx of immigrants from Mexico…so…personally I wouldn’t choose U of A over ASU</p>

<p>those are the only 2 state schools…the cc’s and Northern Arizona University are all very easy although you can find some challenging courses at them as well…the cc’s and NAU are mostly geared for Nursing and Dental Hygene…</p>

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<p>lol thesiren…</p>

<p>I’d never in my life attend a Texas school. Nor would I attend any school south of NOVA and east of the Mississippi</p>

<p>EXCEPT Emory. but still…</p>