School rivalries

VTECaddict
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:44:54 +0000

anyone who attends UCLA cares for prestige.

Perhaps to an extent…which is probably one of the reasons why we didn’t pick another “lesser” UC. But we definitely do not obsess over them as MANY students picked UCLA over Cal, Ivy’s etc, even though UCLA is less “prestigious.”

Rankings and prestige are not everything. What you do and what you make of your college career is much more important than going to school X that is ranked 3 spots ahead of school Y. If that is all you care about, then I think you picked the wrong school. You’re going to keep kicking yourself for picking “the second best” over “the best.”

Besides, Cal was the original UC, so it’s always going to have that sort of halo effect.