<p>"So either pay 44K a year and go to HYPS, and let them make you successful or pay 23K a year, go to UCLA, and make your OWN success with the facilitation of hundreds of student support and academic advising groups that YOU must take the initiative to enroll in."</p>
<p>locknload, you seem to be saying that people who go to Ivy succeed not because they try or work hard, but because of the School name.</p>
<p>citan: i didn't mean to dog on UCLA, and you're right about that. my bad.</p>
<p>to justify myself, i did say earlier, " I'd say the quality and rigor of education at UCLA isn't far off of any university in America."</p>
<p>yay.</p>
<p>Obviously if you are admitted to an Ivy you are a high-caliber; very often the same type of student who is admitted to UCLA...</p>
<p>But listen to your own twisted logic; you state that people who go to Ivy succeed because they work hard; yet you refuse to believe you can go just as far, if not further if you work hard at UCLA....</p>
<p>So why exactly do you have this glamourized and fantastical view of the Ivies, that somehow attending one of those schools will open doors for you that hard work and determination at a top-ranked public university can't?</p>
<p>As a CC student, are you even sure you could handle the Ivies? Those recruiting firms want TOP graduates from the Ivies - you might fail there...</p>
<p>Go where you think you can do your best, and where you'll enjoy your campus life the most. College is more than rankings and numbers.</p>
<p>Perhaps you could also consider the South Harmon Institute of Technology...</p>
<p>"As a CC student, are you even sure you could handle the Ivies"</p>
<p>What does being a CC student get to do anything with this?
I don't plan on going to Ivy school (UPenn) until late in my twenties.
It's not like im going directly from cc to ivy. THAT MAY require me lots of work to get used to the ivy environement.</p>
<p>Imagine this thread in the Berkeley forum. The posters over there will bash the living daylights out of anyone with statements like dhl3's. =)</p>
<p>I <3 Berkeley!</p>
<p>So what the hell are you doing here on this UCLA board? Your topic title is "How well credited is UCLA" ... the answer: Very well credited...</p>
<p>If you haven't realized the impact of how selective UCLA is yet, then perhaps you will later. I myself learned how presitigious the university actually was after my admission to the school ...</p>
<p>So what are you doing on a UCLA board, telling a lot of UCLA students that they are "filled with undeserved Bruin pride" and that you "will be" attending UCLA (assuming UCLA accepts you), when you ALREADY made up your mind and "know" what you want to do for educational/career plan?</p>
<p>Sounds like you just want to make a lot of students angry, and there is no reason for it.</p>
<p>so many short-tempered people in UCLA.
All i said was Wharton is better than Anderson, and ppl get wild at this obvious statement, trying to deny it.</p>
<p>Maybe i should go to either UCB or USC...
seems like you all will search for me and stone me to death if i go to UCLA...</p>
<p>dude just stay at cc, with your cocky attitude, even if you get into Wharton or Harvard for biz school, when it comes time to the interview, the interviewers will sense your cockiness and may not even hire you.</p>
<p>dhl, are you asian? the ivies are not a sure ticket to riches. Many people at UCLA chose UCLA over UCB, including me, basically my entire orientation group chose UCLA over UCB. </p>
<p>Wharton is better than Anderson, but you're making the statement that you're too good for Anderson that you don't want to go to Anderson. Haha, I don't think you'll even make it into Devry business school. Getting into Anderson or Wharton or any other school is not a piece of cake as you portray it to be.</p>
<p>I never said getting into Anderson is a piece of cake, and i never portrayed it like that.</p>
<p>why do you think people are responding the way that they are, you're portraying that getting into Anderson would be easy, and that it's not "worthy" of you.</p>
<p>Well it's true that Wharton is better business school than Anderson. Even many of UCLA students admits to it. </p>
<p>All I'm doing is setting my goal as highest as possible (cuz since elementary, you've learned to set your goal high), and certainly, i believe that Wharton is more well-reputed and more prestigious than Anderson.</p>
<p>Now this doesn't mean Anderson is a horrible school. Anderson is a top quality school. Its bus. prog. is among the top, and it's VERY HARD to get in there. But that simply isn't my goal. </p>
<p>I may not even be worthy of Anderson.
Even anderson might be a reach for me.
But it isnt my goal.</p>
<p>Wharton is my goal, not Anderson.</p>
<p>okay, now that sounds better and more realistic.</p>
<p>ok, so your intention was to make myself feel inferior and hopeless about getting into Wharton because I'm not worthy of it.</p>
<p>You can't judge someone who's only gone through a year in college.
Just because I'm attending cc right now doesnt mean I'll never make to Anderson and is not worthy of any ivys.
especially for business school.</p>
<p>uh, my goal is not to make you feel inferior. My goal is to give you a realistic outlook. You can make it into Anderson if you want to, heck even Wharton. But first you need to get into a 4 year college.</p>
<p>I've been realistic all this time.</p>
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<p>yeah i visited him at harvard this past february and got a renewed respect for green grass and sunshine lol. but yeah this guy's gonna do amazing things with his life.</p>
<p>here's a possible/realistic career path</p>
<p>UCLA undergrad, major in business economics
practice case studies, get involved with some leadership activities
land an internship (possibly with Bain, who likes UCLA alums)
land a job with a top consulting firm (if not mckinsey, then bain or BCG)
work 2-3 years as analyst at consulting firm
go to wharton (or other top 5 b-school)
work for top consulting firm or whatever </p>
<p>and no need for CPA. an accounting minor in undergrad is sufficient, esp. if youre taking more accounting during your MBA. the CPA is necessary only if your goal is to work in accounting. </p>
<p>p.s. working at bain and BCG (the yale and princeton if mckinsey is harvard) for a few years is impressive enough for a top 5 b-school like wharton. many consulting firms will make you go pursue an MBA after 2-3 years anyway.</p>
<p>Ummm...what is CPA? ^^;;</p>
<p>"if your goal is to go to mckinsey, then i dont even know why youre thinking about UCLA cuz you should be aiming as high as possible on the prestige scale anyway. that means ivies, stanford, MIT, or any top 15 school. and no, berkeley is not good enough, unless you're at the top of the class at haas. "</p>
<p>Not necessarily the top. The interview plays a huge role as well, and how you can well you can make an impression. If you can impress them then they can overlook the GPA a bit. My sisters' Berkeley friends have gone on to IB firms and have become very successful, and not all of them majored in business administration. However, it's true that the top IB firms will only recruit at the top universities.</p>
<p>The truth is, if you nail your interview, employers can somewhat look past the major and the GPA. (Of course, given two applicants that are equally sharp, they prefer the one with the relevant course work and higher GPA.)</p>