School rivalries

pink-llama
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:53:52 +0000

I was just thinking…how come ucla is rivals with usc and cal is rivals with stanford? I know that these are “cross town” rivalries, but realistically speaking, ucla-usc and ucla-cal are much more realistic rivalries than cal-stanford. I was just reading countless threads on websites, and to most people in the country, ucla and usc are a tier below cal and stanford, even though ucla, cal, and usc are basically ranked together (21, 24, 26) while stanford is not (4). I chose ucla over berkeley because I liked it more, but I also knew I would be having to deal with the very annoying and minute difference in prestige between ucla and cal. It’s tradition, but that aside, wouldn’t ucla be doing itself a favor by rivaling cal, the other UC rather than usc? To me, ucla and cal are exactly the same in terms of “goodness”, but by rivaling usc, we are basically handing over the title of “best UC” over to cal.

(not that anything will change. Just my two cents)