<p>Cal, UCLA, UCSD....which other state can beat this combination of top-class public schools...and for private: stanford, caltech, USC....Where else can you transfer from a community college to a top class university system like UC with relative ease? Imagine if you lived in Kentucky or something (which I did for a while). Sure it's expensive in CA but it pays off in other ways...</p>
<p>They should rename this forum "UC Transfer Students"</p>
<p>Yes, for the months of March (UC acceptances begin) to Novemeber (new transfer students submitting UC aps and personal statements). Then revert back to "Transfer Students" for the months in between.</p>
<p>Well, there is Michigan...</p>
<p>California takes up practically the entire west coast, and there are all of three prestigious private schools that you can name...</p>
<p>Compare that to how many you can name on the east coast; say from New England to North Carolina which should be roughly about the same distance. </p>
<p>East coast still dominates.</p>
<p>janel89,</p>
<p>Four. Stanford, CalTech, USC, Claremont Colleges.</p>
<p>One of the reasons why California never developed the privates like much of the East Coast is the excellent public system.</p>
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<p>...and for every public school in CA, I could name two more east coast privates that are better.</p>
<p>Only at the undergrad level. :p</p>
<p>Either way, I think that UCs offer an excellent bargain for most people. But on CC, where it's "ZOMG! SUPER PRESTIGE OR NOTHING!" my kind of thinking is rather odd.</p>
<p>Granted, California has the best quality of colleges and universities--both public and private--in the nation. Nevertheless, East coast continues to dominate the west coast with All of the Ivy league schools (so 8 schools right there), Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, UNC--Chapel Hill, NYU, Tulane, UMass, Fordham, UConn, Johns Hopkins, UMaryland, UVA, William and Mary, Georgetown, GWU, WUSTL, Carnegie Mellon, Wake Forest, Lehigh, Brandeis, Rochester, MIT, GIT, Syracuse, Penn State (gosh, the list goes on and on :D).</p>
<p>The East Coast also has a much larger number of people.</p>
<p>I wonder, per capita, which area does better?</p>
<p>New York! Without New York (NYC particularly), there goes the US economy.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, California has one the highest per capita incomes (lol, although I'm not gonna dig through a bunch of pages looking for it), but I remember reading that it was higher than most states (excluding the super mineral rich, but less populated states like Alaska)... But, one reason why land is so expensive here (even though we got a lot more of it). San Francisco is the 2nd most densely populated city in the country. Los Angeles is the 2nd largest city in the country.</p>
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<p>That's not what I was asking, but I guess I should be more clear.</p>
<p>My question is this: Does California or the East Coast do better in terms of quality colleges per capita. Aggregate is usually a poor indicator.</p>
<p>Let's not forget about New York's SUNY and CUNY system....really really good schools. Buffalo, Binghamton, Albany, Baruch, Stony Brook, Geneseo....they can definitely give the California system a run for their money</p>
<p>"California takes up practically the entire west coast, and there are all of three prestigious private schools that you can name...</p>
<p>Compare that to how many you can name on the east coast; say from New England to North Carolina which should be roughly about the same distance."</p>
<p>The reason for this is insanely simple. The ivy league schools are OLD! California became a state over 200 years after the formation of Harvard! This isn't rocket science! And yes, contrasting with the East Coast tradition, the first university in California, while beginning as a private school, was quickly purchased by the State and is now Berkeley.</p>
<p>thefreshprince,</p>
<p>While I recognize SUNY and CUNY as good schools, I don't think that they match the UCs for overall quality. From what I know, they were much better a few decades back, but today the UC is seen as the flagship public school system.</p>
<p>SYSTEM, folks. NOT individual school.</p>
<p>EFF THE IVY LEAGUE, EEF THE EAST COAST.</p>
<p>california is the best state. get out of here janel, i dont want to hear it. the system here is beautiful compared to the rest of the US....</p>
<p>its beautiful to have community college students transfer to top universities like Berkeley (and these are people who usually need another shot at getting a higher education for whatever reasons, financial, bad grades, etc etc)....</p>
<p>the ivy league is overrated anyway. theres more to a school than name, and theres more to a state's greatness than the number of top private schools it has. sure private schools SHOULD be at the top, bc they're freaking private. we have the best public university system. KEY WORD: AFFORDABLE.....</p>
<p>and which of you idiots said that nyc is running the US economy? YES its the financial capital of the world. but the economy is more in the hands of californians than one huge city. california is the world's 5th largest economy...compare a population of what? 40 mil...to the city of new york....give me a break.</p>
<p>East Coast dominates? dominates in what? lol.....the ivy league is so overrated that it's not even funny...all it turns out is pretentious liberal art snobs...</p>
<p>lol is this a joke? did thefreshprince ACTUALLY try to compare suny and cuny to the UC SYSTEM! </p>
<p>please, they cant even compare, let alone, be better than the UC system as a whole.</p>