Very true stuff there. All the UC’s have amazing research and educational resources no matter which you go to. It’s all about what you do with it. You made some great points, especially with your comparison to Brown and how it is “ranked.” It’s just sad to see so many people dismiss an institution that is ranked 55th out of all public universities in the U.S. (UCR) just because it’s in the same system as other colleges like UCLA and UCB. I don’t see the UC system adding more schools in a very long time but that just gives the current ones all the more time to improve.