<p>Well i wanted to know the name recognition and prestigiousness(?) of all UCs and USC... and whatever other school you would like to add in (Caltech too i suppose if you want to...)</p>
<p>Put these in a order you think has the most name recognition and is most prestigious of them all... something like that (like i said, you can add on to this list)</p>
<p>University of California Irvine
University of California Riverside
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Berkeley (<- i'm pretty sure this will be number 1 for everybody)
University of California Davis
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California San Diego
University of California Santa Cruz
University of Southern California</p>
<p>I was just curious.. i don't live in California so i don't know about most of these (except Berkeley, UCLA, and USC.. oh and Caltech, ofcourse!)</p>
<p>You can also put a pros and con next to the schools if you want to...</p>
<p>Outside of CA, I think only Cal, LA, USC and Caltech are generally known. At the NE schools I know, those and the Claremonts are the only schools people apply to.</p>
<p>Every once in a while other names pop up, but the above are the most common. I can't give a really objective ranking of prestigiousness in the UCs, though.</p>
<p>Pomona is considered equal from an eduational point of view from those "in the know", and if grad school admissions are any indication. But from a purely "prestige" point of view, (man on the street) I'd say it has a long way to go before people put it in the same bucket as Stanford or Cal Tech.
Prestige= highly regarded + well-known. Pomona is highly regarded, but not really well known. That seems to be changing, though.</p>
<p>It's hard for small schools to ever reach the prestige level of larger ones. They just don't have the bodies to spread the word!</p>
<p>Yeah, Pomona really speaks for itself when you look at it's statistics--they're amazing. I always thought it was kind of sad that there were a lot of schools like that that aren't nearly as well-known.</p>
<p>Don't think of it as sad... think of it as a great opportunity... especially for those who want excellence but aren't that concerned with "name." </p>
<p>They can get their prestigious name in grad school. :) If they care.</p>
<p>Lol by the time Pomona admits graduate, the school will be prestigious. Its like investing in a stock. Sure it isn't prestigious now, but in 10 years who knows?</p>
<p>University of California Irvine 5
University of California Riverside 8
University of California Los Angeles 1
University of California Berkeley 2
University of California Davis 7
University of California Santa Barbara 6
University of California San Diego 4
University of California Santa Cruz 9
University of Southern California 3</p>