Is UCLA all that people make it out to be?

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<p>OP - I think the Wikepedia writeup on UCLA is thorough and encouraging. <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Considering that UCLA awarded its first Ph.D. as recently as 1938, it has ascended to academic heights astonishingly quickly (but not as stonishingly quickly as UCSD did :slight_smile: )</p>

<p>The East Coast of the US is culturally more atuned to tradition. A school as young as UCLA (and Stanford, Bekeley and Caltech for that matter) will never evoke a response with the same sense of gravitas as an insitution founded before or near the time of the American Revolution.</p>