<p>Just curious as to what the relationship is between these northern and southern universities.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t it be USC is to UCLA as Stanford is to UCB? Since you know, those are actually closer to one another.</p>
<p>I was trying to see if there is similarities to the So Cal and Nor Cal universities. Not comparing southern to southern and northern to northern.</p>
<p>Actually, I definitely agree.</p>
<p>USC has more similarities to Stanford than UCLA.</p>
<p>UCLA has more similarities to Berkeley than USC. Also, UCLA and Berkeley’s traditions and systems are very similar.</p>
<p>Thus, USC is to Stanford as UCLA is to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I love the logic of the above post. Let me see if I get it:</p>
<p>Humans breathe. So do monkeys. Therefore humans and monkeys are related (eat that, creationists :D)</p>
<p>There is no evident relationship between USC and Stanford, but there is between UCLA and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s urban legend, but it’s said that USC once claimed it was going to be “the Stanford of the West.” So yeah, I guess your theory works :)</p>
<p>Stanford in the 70’s used to call itself the Harvard of the West.
USC is saying it’s goal is to become the Stanford of S Calif.</p>
<p>Here is an article about Stanford’s transformation in the 1950’s and 60’s. Definitely some parallels to USC of today.</p>
<p>[Fast</a> PACE at Palo Alto - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829332,00.html]Fast”>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829332,00.html)</p>
<p>To me any university with the location in it does not sounds prestigious. Stanford just sounds awesome. Southern california does not</p>
<p>agreed with post 8 , especially as USC these days seems to be short for University of Stolen Colleagues!</p>
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<p>I agree to an extent, but USC is an exception.</p>
<p>It might not necessarily SOUND prestigious, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be. UPenn, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, BC, UCLA, WashU, UVA. None are prestigious? Not to mention Princeton, Stanford (Ok, really Palo Alto, but they say it’s in Stanford), Notre Dame, and Berkeley are all named after little towns that they’re in.</p>
<p>Lol yeah, and who goes for universities just for how they sound when enunciated?</p>
<p>sfgiants- I must agree there are definite parallels in the TIME article. It should be noted that UCLA has been stagnate in the 25th spot for some time, unlike USC which is now aggressively hiring top researchers and climbing the rankings. For example, I had a professor who was “stolen” from UCLA and loves USC for it’s abundant funding and other benefits that the UC system lacked. </p>
<p>The purpose of this post was not to bash any schools. Just I saw some similarities in the culture and academics of privates and publics. For example, Berkeley is looked at as the more academic campus, where as UCLA is looked as lesser, more social, materialistic “LA” campus. The same could be concluded with CA top privates, Stanford and USC, respectively. Yes, the privates aren’t part of a statewide system, but if they were, there are strong similarities. Same can be considered with respects to UCSD and Pepperdine. Both are beach campuses in a gorgeous affluent town, but the campuses themselves are dull. The academics are also very similar.</p>
<p>I think the more appropriate comparisons are that Pomona College is quite like Stanford rather than SC being like Stanford. Pomona, along with the remaining Claremont Schools presents a more similar size in terms of undergrad student population and far more “cross-over” between Stanford and Pomona as to applicants than either has to USC.</p>
<p>The similarity even goes so far as the same person designed both the Stanford and Pomona Campuses.</p>
<p>USC has a dramatically larger student population, a large commuter population of students, takes a large % of transfers unlike Stanford or Pomona. This is NO knock on USC which is a wonderful school in its own right.</p>
<p>Berkeley and ucla are quite similar in size, majors presented etc. and obviously both part of the UC system, enhancing there similarity all the more and both are public schools versus SC, STanford and Pomona being private instituions.</p>
<p>The common thread between STanford and Berkeley is just that they are sports rivals given their proximity, much as SC and ucla being in the same city.</p>