<p>I agree down the line with afterhours ranking. Davis should probably be above UCSB, but just because UCSB loses a lot of kids to the Islal Vista lifestyle, not because it isn't a fabulous school.
UCLA is really coming on strong though, and kids at our high school routinely get rejected from UCLA and accepted at Berkeley. I don't know if that's just a geographic bias by southlanders with more applying.</p>
<p>ichiboy said "...no cuts made for atheletes in admissions..." for UCSD, but since I am an athlete that applied there I would like to correct that. First some background. UCSD is the only DII in the country that doesn't offer any ahtletics scholarships. This limits there athletic program tremendously, but they are able to let kids in under different admissions criteria. For the athletic department, if you have 3.5 and 1150 and the coaches know you and want you, you will be let in. This is from the letter I got from the baseball coach, "Congratulations on completing and submitting your application to UC San Diego. We will now include your name on our list of student/athletes recommended for acceptance..." Basically, they do make cuts for athletes, every school, even UCSD does.</p>
<p>As always, "best" is in the eye of the beholder. "Best" what? Football? - Cal-Duh. Best undergraduate experience? Best research? Best weather? Best student life? Best humanities? Best math/science? Best enology program? Davis-Duh.</p>
<p>UCI is also on the climb; claims to be #12 in publics. I would suggest that R&D funding is slightly skewed away from Cal bcos of Cal's historical spinoffs: UCSF and Lawrence Livermore Labs, which, while technically run by the UC system, are still very closely lnked to Berkeley. For example, one can do biomed research in Berkeley or in SF or both.</p>
<p>UCSF never spun off of Cal. UCDavis is the only UC to have spun off of Cal. UCSF has always been its own school. Also LL labs isn't close to Cal. I beleive UCDavis is the only UC to hold graduate classes at LL labs. </p>
<p>Here is how I rank them. Rember rankings are just opinions. This is for UG. </p>
<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>UCB</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
<li>UCM</li>
</ol>
<p>VTBoy,even LA spun off of Cal.....it was originally called the University of California Southern Branch.</p>
<p>Your right about UCLA I forgot about that one, but UCSF was NEVER apart of Cal. It was always its own school, I know that for sure.</p>
<p>Agreed.</p>
<ol>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSC</li>
<li>UCR</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm surprised that so many rank UCD so high in the rankings. I know they have specialized programs such as pre-vet and enology, but wasn't aware that overall academics were thought of more highly than UCSB.</p>
<p>UCD has one of the best Biology programs in the UC system. Up there with UCB, UCLA, and UCSD. The Eingeering school is also very good too, almost as good as the big 3 UCs.</p>
<p>UCD is the Harvard of Wine Study.</p>
<p>"UCD is the Harvard of Wine Study."</p>
<p>And Davis is building a brand new state of the art institute in Food and Nutrition research, this includes wine study.</p>
<p>VTBoy:</p>
<p>From UCSF's history:</p>
<p>"The University of California, San Francisco .....can be traced in San Francisco to the 1864 establishment of the Toland Medical College, which nine years later would become the Medical Department of a then fledgling University of California across the Bay." referring, of course, to a Department of Berkeley</p>
<p>This is about UCLA
Though a decade-long fund-raising campaign that ends next year has more than doubled the flow of private money pouring into UCLA, officials say a trend of shrinking government funding of public universities means UCLA will depend even more on private donations in years to come. </p>
<p>Campaign UCLA, launched publicly in May 1997, reached its target earlier this year of raising $2.4 billion for campus entities including professional schools, athletics and the library. University charts show the average annual private donations to UCLA stand at $250 million, up from $100 million prior to the current fund-raising effort. </p>
<p>The campaign will last through Dec. 31, 2005, and Rhea Turteltaub, assistant vice chancellor for development, said the money goes toward everything from research to faculty chair endowments. While the fund-raising push has achieved success beyond initial ambitions, the university now needs to narrow its focus, she added. </p>
<p>Chancellor Albert Carnesale said in a meeting with the Daily Bruin this month that as California continues to suffer budget woes, UCLA must concentrate on strengthening its floundering ability to compete with private universities in recruiting graduate students, faculty and researchers. </p>
<p>Turteltaub said this "competitiveness gap" was the principal motivation behind creating the Initiative to Ensure Academic Excellence, a UCLA fund-raising effort started this spring to raise $250 million over the next five years, and "to provide a laser sharp focus on the needs of students and faculty."</p>
<p>"The University of California, San Francisco .....can be traced in San Francisco to the 1864 establishment of the Toland Medical College, which nine years later would become the Medical Department of a then fledgling University of California across the Bay." referring, of course, to a Department of Berkeley"</p>
<p>Your misunderstanding this, this does not mean it was part of UC Berkeley. When UCSF became affiliated with the University of California in 1973 it wasn't a UC system. Infact the U of Cal was just created when UCSF became affliated with it. Notice UCSF never broke away from berkeley because it was never apart of it. It was apart of the Univerisity of California not Cal. From the begining the school granted its OWN degrees. Davis, Los Angeles were not able to grant their own degrees. But UCSF since the begining granted its own degrees. As for funding even when it became affiliated its funding was seperat.</p>
<p>You guys are convincing me that UCD is very underrated then. I had always ranked the UCs in a way that corresponds with their admit rate.</p>
<p>Admit Rate % (from the UC system info booklet 2004-05 for Class of 2002)</p>
<p>UCB 23.7%
UCLA 23.7%
UCSD 41.0%
UCSB 50.9%
UCI 56.3%
UCD 61.9%
UCR 77.8%
UCSC 78.3%</p>
<p>Even with the crunch the lowe UCs are taking almost 80%? I had no idea. How can this be? This is on par with the worst colleges in the Country.</p>
<p>These numbers tell a nor very pretty story. Do they include community college transfers?</p>
<p>Most colleges in this country take everybody who applies.</p>
<p>"Even with the crunch the lowe UCs are taking almost 80%? I had no idea. How can this be? This is on par with the worst colleges in the Country."</p>
<p>Well, you also have to consider the fact that the UC-system has one application and all you have to do to apply to additional schools is check a box. Because it is so simple, many people decide to apply to many (or all) of the UC schools as safeties even if they know they will get into a better school. I'm sure UCSC and UCR consider this and know that many of the high quality applicants are going to go to the other UC schools so they admit students accordingly.</p>