<p>^I like your handle. It sounds like something I'd use... but then again, you've taken it. If anyone asked, I'd just say 4700 and pretend the school's harder to get into Harvard since I have an inferiority complex about being a state school and being one of a million thousands who got accepted... I am, after all, a pseudointellect and too much of POS to crack top 10 and ****.</p>
<p>I never knew it was so hard to get into ucla</p>
<p>UCLA and Berkeley are considered West Ivy's now.</p>
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<p>There are only 8 ivy's...trying to convince ourselves that ucla is a "west ivy" just looks pathetic. You know what they say: If you have to ask, say, or announce it etc...UCLA and Berkeley are great schools but there simply not on the same level as ivy's</p>
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UCLA and Berkeley are great schools but there simply not on the same level as ivy's
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<p>In terms of international recognition, UCLA and Berk are equal to or better than some of the Ivy's.</p>
<p>^...so? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^...so? :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>I'm not talking about international, I'm talking about the US...you know, where 95% of us will be working upon graduation.</p>
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<p>Well I'm going to be the 5% :rolleyes:</p>
<p>The UCs accept a number larger than their available space, since students might or might NOT want to go. They have to overestimate.</p>
<p>4700 is the available space for freshman, not the total number accepted.</p>
<p>I have to admit, I had heard of UCLA long before Brown, Swarthmore, and Williams.</p>
<p>I didn't hear of Stanford until ~3 years ago! :O</p>
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I didn't hear of Stanford until ~3 years ago! :O
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<p>That's abnormal. :p</p>
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<p>I heard of Ohio State long before I heard of Amherst, Dartmouth, and scores of other better schools.</p>
<p>Shocking news: Asian countries are more likely to have heard of UCB/UCLA than small East Coast liberal arts colleges. :rolleyes:</p>
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There are only 8 ivy's...trying to convince ourselves that ucla is a "west ivy" just looks pathetic. You know what they say: If you have to ask, say, or announce it etc...UCLA and Berkeley are great schools but there simply not on the same level as ivy's
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<p>And while you pay 200k for your Ivy education, I will be paying roughly half of that and getting just as good of an education.</p>
<p>Success in life doesn't come from the college you go to, but rather from your own personal drive and ambition.</p>
<p>The Ivy's are over-rated.</p>
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And while you pay 200k for your Ivy education, I will be paying roughly half of that and getting just as good of an education.</p>
<p>Success in life doesn't come from the college you go to, but rather from your own personal drive and ambition.</p>
<p>The Ivy's are over-rated.
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<p>1) I go to UCLA</p>
<p>2) Anybody who pays 200k to go to an Ivy has 200k to pay. Most of the ivies now offer HUGE scholarships to those that need them, often paying for all of their college. </p>
<p>3) Getting a quality education is great, so is getting a B and "learning the material" instead of getting that A. I figured this out my 2nd year of college but you don't actually "learn" a whole lot in college. We don't go to college to learn, we go because it gives you a huge leg up in the real world. </p>
<p>4) I agree that the college you go to doesn't determine how successful you are, but in some professions it helps. Good luck getting a trading job on the floor of wall street from UCLA. Good luck going into a top PE/HF/IB/Consulting firm from UCLA. </p>
<p>5) Ivies are overrated if you think they give you a better education, but they do give you a better alumni network and better opportunities right out of UG. Disputing this is just blind ignorance.</p>