<p>UC schools are excellent schools, but something about them is unappealing. for one, most of the transfers are cc students, and we all know good school recruit freshman like harvard or yale. but thats not the point, my point is that unlike many colleges around the country UC schools feel a bit different. everytime i look at the top public school list, there always flooding the top. theres so many on top, i have a tough time considering them real schools, when they actually are. its tough to explain, but when i look at the top public schools it should be going to individual schools, and not the whole Calfornia college system. its should be just virgnina, chappel hill, W&A, austin, Penn U,college park , real school not schools on a sams club bundle. dont get me wrong there good schools, they should be grouped as one though.</p>
<p>5 UC schools are ranked in the top 20 that fen crazy. or ¡eso está loco!</p>
<p>Why is it bad that California has LOTS of top schools? And why, exactly, does it matter if most of the transfers are CC students? The CC system in California is VERY highly regarded and is DESIGNED to send people to UCs. That's what it's for. </p>
<p>And I think you're confused. It's not possible for the UCs to be listed as one school because THEY ARE NOT one school. They're 10 self-contained campuses which, while they do receive state funds, ALSO rely on independant grants and donations to operate. It's not like each campus is a satellite branch of one school. The shared name doesn't mean that they share other things. </p>
<p>They totally deserve to be ranked on their own merits, seperately. Since that's what they are. Seperate.</p>
<p>i understand ur argument. I am a cali resident and when i was looking to transfer to OOS schools i realized that it is much easier to transfer from cali to anywhere else then it would be from someone who is an OOS student to come here. But then again, u have to consider that cali is paradise and paradise is always limited. I know there is a beach in connecticut that only allows the residents to attend; that is how the UC system works.</p>
<p>I think Abe is confused as well. UCB and UCR should not be in the same category. Also I hate to bust people on grammar and spelling but your writing is so terrible. It makes it hard to read.</p>
<p>Yeah. Really, the name is the ONLY similar thing.</p>
<p>California has the largest number of population and the only state with two cities over a million people (with one closely following behind - San Jose (910k))</p>
<p>California alone has more population than the entire Canada, and has eight of the top 50 US cities in terms of population. </p>
<p>Of course Cali will have more universities than any of the state, and it's understandable that most of UCs fall under top category universities.</p>
<p>this is a stupid thread.</p>
<p>the OP has no point plus hes confused.</p>
<p>this is for abethebutcher</p>
<p>so you don't think UC berkeley deserve to be on top?!</p>
<p>Abethetroll</p>
<p>"its should be just virgnina, chappel hill, W&A, austin, Penn U,college park , real school not schools on a sams club bundle"</p>
<p>Wow. I'm surprised so many people understood. </p>
<p>I have no clue what you're trying to get at. Penn State is a system, not just one school, same thing with Umich, U tex, and UNC. The reason the UC schools are consistently on top isn't because they lump the rest of the UC schools with Berkeley and UCLA, it's because they're all, individually, that good.</p>
<p>"when i look at the top public schools it should be going to individual schools, and not the whole Calfornia college system"</p>
<p>Well when those school get their ish together, they can join us at the top.</p>
<p>"dont get me wrong there good schools, they should be grouped as one though."</p>
<p>No they shouldn't. The closest any two UC schools are to one another is 50 miles. They have separate deans, separate admissions standards, separate funds, separate staff. </p>
<p>"most of the transfers are cc students, and we all know good school recruit freshman like harvard or yale"</p>
<p>What do UC transfers have to do with Harvard freshmen?</p>
<p>dhl3 -</p>
<p>Houston - 2 million
San Antonio - 1.2 million
Dallas - 1.2 million</p>
<p>Cali isn't the only state with 2 cities with 1 million + population.</p>
<p>haha CA rulesin terms of education and opportunities...in which other state do you have schools like Stanford, UCB, UCLA, UCSD, Caltech? **** the ivy league </p>
<p>CA = greatest state ever</p>
<p>Massachusetts.</p>
<p>who the hell wants to live in Massachusetts.......hahahahahahahahahaha</p>
<p>That's beside the point. I'm talking a/b which school has the most top schools. I think that honor would go to Massachusetts...but Cali is a pretty close second.</p>
<p>Mass seems kinda chill, has anyone seen Clearks II? I think that was in Mass.</p>
<p>I prefer New York over Massachussettes.</p>
<p>but true, Masaschusetes has Harvard, MIT, Tufts, University of Massachusettes - New Port, Massachuseetesses state university at Harvard, etc.</p>
<p>Boston College, Boston University, Amherst, Williams, and on and on....</p>