<p>I don’t subscribe to that; I think all u’s are different and not really comparable. That’s why we have these conversations to try to prove that they aren’t. </p>
<p>UCLA is a better professional-school feeder, though I’m sure Illinois is pretty good also.</p>
<p>Illinois is better in sending bac degree holders to PHD STEM programs, though UCLA is top-10 in pure numbers.</p>
<p>They aren’t at all alike. UCLA is Hollywood and kind of flashy; Illinois is small town seclusion, and midwest. Absolutely, though both are excellent academic universities. </p>
<p>I don’t think any of the UC’s are comparable; there are some more comparable, but all are unique. UCLA isn’t at all like Cal, and it is somewhere between like being like convivial SB, and somewhere like the academic juggernaut that Cal is. I think because of the prior, SB is at opposite poles as Cal, in my eyes. Davis is really unique with its science programs. Irvine and SD, in my eyes, are fairly similar but if you look closely at them, they have large differences also. Merced might be like a younger Riverside, but we’ll have to see. </p>
<p>So, I don’t buy into your notions. You can blanket all you want, but that’s just an easy way of not really participating.</p>