<p>Mainly, I'm starting this thread because I want to look at what other California colleges I can choose to apply to. I have my UCs and some privates...ready to apply to, but I wanted to ask which Cal States offer one of the best education environments/prestige. I'm planning to include couple of Cal States in my list of applications so if you guys can name any other good universities here that would be great.</p>
<p>What I consider prestigious (please add on)</p>
<p>UCs: Cal, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSB</p>
<p>Privates: Stanford, USC</p>
<p>Cal States: Cal Poly SLO? What else? I'd like to know more about the Cal States</p>
<p>Chico is great for the "college town" environment, as is Cal Poly SLO. SDSU has the big University feel with great weather and associated activities.</p>
<p>would anyone be interested in throwing private U's and LACs into the mix? I'd love to see your private school rankings from the local point of view:</p>
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as far as "prestige" goes Caltech>Stanford>UCB>UCLA>Pomona>UCSD>Harvey Mudd>Claremont
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<p>What? Caltech more prestigious than Stanford? You'd be hard-pressed to be able to find people who agree with that one... come on, it's Stanford. And many people on CC, even Caltech students, acknowledge that Caltech has much less prestige than its peers.</p>
<p>Ide say most prestigious are in order probably
Berkeley (the world capitol of chemical and Nuclear reactions...nuff said), Stanford (its stanford), and then Caltech</p>
<p>I mean yes at undergrad level, Cal is not the most reknowned, but at Graduate it sure is. And Berkeley science labs and inventions. I think Cal is likely better known worldwide than stanford.</p>
<p>One thing I always hate is how people always tend to think HYPS are better than Cal at all levels. I mean yes, the undergrad is not very friendly and requires you to be independent, but at Grad level, Cal is debateably the best in the world.
It boasts top political sciences, communications, foreign languages (especially East Asian), Business, Science, Engineering, and law programs in the world.</p>
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I mean yes, the undergrad is not very friendly and requires you to be independent, but at Grad level, Cal is debateably the best in the world.
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<p>Many come to realize that one undergrad is not inherently better than another. Harvard may not be better than UCLA for undergrad, or Swarthmore over Stanford, or Cal State Northridge over Berkeley. Some people thrive in large environments; others, not so much. And of course, each will have different qualities that some value more -- e.g. course selection, or availability of student organizations, or access to a vibrant city. So really, I wouldn't say undergrad at Berkeley is subpar to, say, Vanderbilt or Brown -- just different. Likewise, I wouldn't say that Tufts or USC is subpar to Berkeley or UVA undergrad. They simply offer different environments and options (e.g. with money).</p>
<p>Scripps, Pitzer, USF, Chapman, perhaps St. Mary's...to add a few deserving schools that have so far been left off of the (obviously-nowhere-near-exhaustive) list.</p>
<p>For the record, there are many, many old threads "ranking" CA schools.</p>
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the world capitol of chemical and Nuclear reactions
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Alas, the chemistry department is not host to a legislative body. Perhaps the political science department is. </p>
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at Grad level, Cal is debateably [sic] the best in the world.
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I don't give a fig for any of the three, but the last NRC rankings put Berkeley behind MIT (average of nonzero ranks) or Stanford (average of all 41 ranks). Of course, we'll see how well each does when the new ranking comes out next spring. Things may have changed a lot.</p>