<p>so many cal school threads, the curiosity is killing me: is cal state a school, or a system, like the UC system. i always hear ppl say "cal state" and i have no clue what they are talking about! sorry for being dumb, never been to cali and not familiar with the schools!</p>
<p>California has three levels of higher education system set up:</p>
<p>1) California Community Colleges
2) California State Universities (or Cal States)
3) University of California System</p>
<p>they are all public schools.....the difference between cal states and UC is research...cal states don't offer PhDs</p>
<p>as you can see I am really lazy...for more info refer to wikipedia.com</p>
<p>Citan, he was simply asking whether there is a Cal State system or if it is just one school.</p>
<p>It is a system. There are 23 Cal State schools.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_State%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_State</a></p>
<p>as I said I am really lazy.....should have read his post...o well</p>
<p>thanks for clearing it up. yes, i was wondering about the system, but also if there is one particular cal state that is the most iconic and the one ppl think of when they hear "cal state" (similar to the UMass system: there are many UMass schools, but when someone says "UMass" they are usually referring to UMass-Amherst). also, i'm a she :)</p>
<p>congrats p44 on harvard....i would have been so thrilled with just columbia, but hey, there are some ppl that are harvard material, and u are one of those ppl</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is informally known as "Cal." That may have confused you also.</p>
<p>thank you so much bball87!</p>
<p>yeah p44, congratulations.</p>
<p>I cannot stop saying congratulations to you Harvard guys and gals. I am that excited for you all.</p>
<p>Thanks nspeds! Everyone on CC is so great. I worked my ass off to get in, and I know that others who didn't get in worked just as hard...admissions are such a crapchute.</p>
<p>It is appropriate and hilarious that both "crap shoot" and "crap chute" are equally descriptive of the college admissioms process.</p>
<p>i agree :) and took that into consideration before choosing which to use!</p>