Which in your opinion is more prestigious?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which in your opinion is more prestigious as a school? and by how much?
Please rank and say the reasons why.</p>

<p>USC
UCLA
UCSD</p>

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<p>UCLA
USC = UCSD (UCSD for sciences)</p>

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<p>Hehe, you put this on the college admissions section too.</p>

<p>UCLA
USC
UCSD</p>

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<p>yea, and we have the same last name :)</p>

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<p>Usc=ucla
Ucsd</p>

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<p>there all equally strong, it's not like if you can go wrong with either.</p>

<p>i personally hold usc to be more prestigious just simply because it's private and their admissions process is more personal than ucla. where ucla's process is random and will admit people based on what looks good on paper, i'm not saying usc doesn't do this, but at least at usc, they have interviews.</p>

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<p>USC and UCLA are more selective. But I think they all are pretty even academically.</p>

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<p>[ol]
[<em>]UCLA
[</em>]USC
[li]UCSD[/li][/ol]</p>

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<p>^Ditto.</p>

<p>But for grad school or purely academic rep, I think it goes:</p>

<p>UCLA
UCSD
USC</p>

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<p>each school has it's strenths. here are the generalizations.</p>

<p>USC- professionalism(film, engineering, business, architecture)
UCSD- hard sciences(bio, physics, etc.)
UCLA- humanities+social sciences(english, history, etc.)</p>

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<p>yeah, SD is good for sciences, but overall, as many have said, its probably LA, USC, SD....not that it really matters a whole lot.</p>

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<p>UCLA
USC
UCSD</p>

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<p>hmm cuz im deciding on these and prestige is a very small but existing factor.</p>

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<p>ACEROCKOLLA, or anybody else
what are the strengths for these schools</p>

<p>Pepperdine
Stanford
Pomona</p>

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<p>Ucla
Usc
Ucsd</p>

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<p>academics:
ucla
ucsd
usc</p>

<p>*anyone who says usc is equal academically to ucla, in my opinion, is wrong. ive never really even heard people argue sc is in the same league adacemically as ucla. look at the number of top ranked programs ucla has, usc just doesnt have as many. they do have some great programs, but not the pure number of highly ranked programs that ucla has.</p>

<p>how well known:
ucla=usc
ucsd</p>

<p>ucsd doesnt have the sports teams that ucla and usc has, and therefore isnt as widely recognized outside of academics to common everyday people. I would argue each of these schools has their strenghts, but overall i feel ucsd is a notch above usc in overal academics. i believe it has more programs highly ranked than sc. sc however is very good at what they are good at, such as film and business, law, ect. it comes down to how do you measure prestige, through top ranked programs or by how well known a school is, or a combination of both. overall they are all excellent schools, which are tough to get into. cant really go wrong with any of them. I think their us news rankings are: UCLA(25th), USC(30th), UCSD(32nd). So they are all quite similar.</p>

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<p>ditto to above</p>

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<p>
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anyone who says usc is equal academically to ucla, in my opinion, is wrong. ive never really even heard people argue sc is in the same league adacemically as ucla. look at the number of top ranked programs ucla has, usc just doesnt have as many.

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<p>i don't know how long you've been on the forums, but i've been on for the past three years and have heard the comparison many times(between usc and ucla). your argument falls flat, considering you're judging the schools based on graduate school programs(when USC's strength are its professional schools), and the fact that great graduate programs don't necessarily correlate to a great undergraduate education.</p>

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<p>Uh, UCLA has higher ranked med and b-schools, and many rankings have USC law pegged slightly higher too...not to mention the fact that most grad depts. at UCLA are definitely better than those at USC.</p>

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<p>my argument does not hinge on usnews rankings, and nowhere did i say usc was superior to ucla. i believe they are relatively even. ucla has a better business school. their med schools, film schools, and law schools are both highly renowned. and usc has a better engineering school. </p>

<p>however, this is college confidential, and my argument lies in that UCLA, USC, and UCSD undergraduate academics are pretty equal, with usc and it's top notch undergrad film, business, engineering, and architecture, and UCLA with its humanities, and UCSD with its sciences. However, you're probably going to get more attention at sc. you can nitpick all you want, but the education at the three schools are all about equally as good.</p>