<p>@Chaos^
I feel that picking a school only for prestige is missing the point. OP isn’t thinking about going to Davis because he/she thinks it would be “the easy detour”. OP thinks it might be a better fit for him/her culturally. If someone isn’t happy at where they go to school then they are less likely to succeed both academically and socially.
That being said, I would find it hard to believe that someone wouldn’t like going to UCLA. So my advice to Tulip would be to go to UCLA unless you have very strong feelings or reasons to go to Davis.</p>