<p>I'm a UCLA grad seeking employment in NYC. And guess what?</p>
<p>NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT MY UCLA DEGREE.</p>
<p>Yes. It's true. Nobody gives a crap. But you know what? My friends with other East Coast AND West Coast degrees have said the same thing: NOBODY GIVES A CRAP.</p>
<p>I want all of you to get this notion that anyone will hire you over a USC grad because of different letters on a piece of paper out of your head. Work is about YOU. Not your school name. Not the silly academic honors you got. Not the size of your "Broouwn Pack" or "Trowjayn Familee." It's about YOU.</p>
<p>Guess what? I know plenty of VERY successful UCLA AND USC grads on the East Coast. I know some who are working awful jobs. Same thing goes for the West Coast.</p>
<p>All of you need to pull your collective heads out of your various orifices and smell the coffee. Degree name, outside of a very few schools, is hardly ever a major factor in hiring decisions outside of the first job or two. Throw out that crutch, guys, 'cause it won't take you far if you hang on to it.</p>
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<p>How about my coffee has not been kicked in. :D</p>
<p>I agree with UCLAri. A lot bashing between USC and UCLA but the simple truth is that these schools are practically the same, ie they are not as selective as Harvard(accept 0 transfer). The fact that these 2 universities accept large transfer students. Just stop the BS that UCLA is more prestigious than USC outside of CA.</p>
<p>I'm a UCLA grad seeking employment in NYC. And guess what?</p>
<p>NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT MY UCLA DEGREE.'</p>
<p>THEY DO AND WE ALL KNOW THAT, NOMATTER WHAT YOU PREACH. OFCOURSE THEY ARE MORE INETRESTED IN THE PERSON BEHING THE DEGREE AND THEY WILL NOT BE LOOKIN AT WHERE YOUR UNIVERSITY RANKS.BUT IF THE PERSON IS CRAP(SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE HERE IN CC LIKE USING THIS WORD) THEN YES NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT YOUR UCLA, . DEGREE
I MIGHT NOT BE AS OLD AS YOU BUT I HAVE LIVED IN 4 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND A DRGREE FROM A DECENT SCHOOL DOES PLAY A ROLE IN YOUR CARRER.</p>
<p>UCLA, USC, and even Berkeley are not that renowned on the East Coast. </p>
<p>Just like West Coasters don't really know that U Penn is an Ivy, East Coasters aren't that familiar with West Coast schools, except for maybe Stanford. Yes, even CalTech isn't renowned on the East Coast. </p>
<p>UCLA and Berkeley may be more prestigious internationally (in Asia and Europe) but in America they aren't as well known on the East Coast.</p>
<p>The only schools that carry that national "brand name" are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, maybe MIT, and maybe Stanford.</p>
<p>Despite this, I feel that UCLA has a better academic reputation than USC, even though it accepts so many transfers as someone else mentioned. </p>
<p>I guess the only way to compete on both coasts is to attend undergrad on one coast and attend grad school on the other coast. :)</p>
<p>Perhaps the reason the topic of USC vs UCLA comes up so often is because it is very hard to wrap one's head around the idea that people willingly pay more than twice as much to attend USC. The rankings of both are similar enough (if you care to use USNWR rankings, and if you don't look closely at availability and particular strengths of specific ug majors), to make that seem odd. Why not just go to UCLA and save the $$? What is it about USC that many find is worth the cost? </p>
<p>The answer may be disappointingly vague, Ayoub. While fans of each school will rightly point out each one's advantages, a great education can be had at either one. The difference between them can come down to the feeling one gets in attending a large state school vs. a large private one. And that feeling is very hard to explain. </p>
<p>Instead of begging more people to post pros and cons (which does incite a lot of heat on this forum, and suggests you may have troll intentions), you should make your mind up by personally comparing the campuses and programs in your major. This takes work on your part, and might I add, work that should have been done long ago if you are a current senior. In fact, I wonder how you can still be in such a quandary over choosing a school if the May 1 decision date is past (another reason some may suspect you are a junior or a troll).</p>
<p>UCLA, USC, and even Berkeley are not that renowned on the East Coast. </p>
<p>i don't know..my opinion is based on professors and people working at large companies..as for the general public you might be correect.</p>
<p>On a side note i have recived a mensage from on of the administrador saying that i have offended a fellow member.
Well i'm here to give my honest truth opinion. and i did get a little carried away so i apologise for the one i was offensive to.</p>
<p>Madbean -->lol, yes you are very right... i was accepted to both schools and didn't know which one to pick so i said yes to both of them with the attention to latter decline one of them (i could care less about the $40 fee) so really i have 3-4 months to make my decision </p>
<p>Anyways, i think you are right madbean... i am going to LA in 2 weeks from SF and i will (like you said) make up my mind personally then</p>
<p>Well academics and professionals definitely know of all these schools and their academic strengths. I think of those 3--I'm not just tooting my horn here--Berkeley is probably the most well known among laypeople, but for the wrong reasons. People think Berkeley equates to "hippies, liberals, and activists." I think the general public may know of UCLA because of its strong athletics, although I'd say its academics outshines its athletics. USC gets somewhat of a bad reputation because its nickname is the "University of Spoiled Children" so I think the general public associates USC with affluent rich kids.</p>
<p>This is all based on hearsay though, but this my opinion of how the non-academic public perceives each of these institutions.</p>
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<p>In the past USC may admit more low-scoring students, but their alumni were very successful, in another word, they are life overachiever. My feeling is this fact may frustrate UCLA people a lot. I mentioned in another post that USC students really have a different mentality than a lot of Bruins. Trojans are more of go-getters.</p>
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I agree with UCLAri. A lot bashing between USC and UCLA but the simple truth is that these schools are practically the same, ie they are not as selective as Harvard(accept 0 transfer). The fact that these 2 universities accept large transfer students. Just stop the BS that UCLA is more prestigious than USC outside of CA.
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<p>UCLA is more well respected outside the west coast. USC on the east coast means South Carolina...I'm from the east coast, that's what it means. </p>
<p>Last time I checked Columbia also accepts transfer students...and people from Barnard can get a Columbia degree (lol)!</p>