<p>^^ haha that is the truth spoken. Although I still believe that UCI is the fastest growing UC and in the top 10 fastest growing universities in the nation</p>
<p>it's the same for UCSD, UCSD has been trying to become a flagship campus since it started. It's been the same since like 10 years ago. Looks like it still has a long way to go. Same with UCD/UCI.</p>
<p>UCD is rapidly developing and expanding their facilities. You can see construction of new facilities throughout campus, and the underlying infrastructure is being expanded to allow for more students every year. The incoming freshman class sizes have been increasing over the past several years.</p>
<p>what exactly constitutes being a flagship school? all of the uc's are fine just where they are right now, it's not like some sort of zero-sum effect, there can be more than one good school in the uc system</p>
<p>I just want to add that although academics want to deny it, sports goes a long way in prestige at least among common folk. Sports is the same reason students from UPenn get confused with those from Penn State. Having a sports team that gets a lot of coverage keeps the school fresh in the minds of alums = more giving, higher sports attendance = more money, revenue sharing from athletics = money from the BCS etc.</p>
<p>That's where UC Davis is in better position than the other UCs. As time progresses, you could hear the UC Davis name more often in regards to sports, which then leads over to more name recognition in general.</p>
<p>Also, as far as "UC X is going to become a flagship" tastybeef has it right. You'll hear "rumors" from students of all the other UC's saying that its going to be the next flagship. I even hear people from UCLA saying that UCLA is going to pass Berkeley because it gets more applications.</p>
<p>OMG seriously people... "prestige" is sooo unimportant in the UC system. Yeah, UC Berkeley and UCLA are the flagship campuses of the University of California, but outside of that, ALL the campuses are good.</p>
<p>Davis, San Diego, Irvine, and Santa Barbara are ALL about on par as far as prestige and amazingness goes. Don't let anyone tell you any of these schools are way better than the other. You really just need to realize that this isn't all about what the "best" and most impressive school is, it's about where you're going to get a good education, and you're going to great education at any of the UC schools I mentioned.</p>
<p>i'd go even further and say that a degree from cal/ucla won't get you anything that the other uc's can't. people have to stop thinking in terms of a pecking order, there really should be no "uc hierarchy". it's kinda troubling when someone hears ucsc or ucr and instantly think "omg that's a bad school!" but when they hear university of oregon, they might think it's amazing, even though oregon is ranked lower and less selective than both of those schools.</p>
<p>To put it in perspective-- UC Davis is ranked among the top 50 (42nd) institutions of all the universities in the world. If that's not prestige, I don't know what is.</p>
<p>I dont think ppl should look into prestige in colleges so much...</p>
<p>If anything they should focus on majors or programs that are prestigious:
UCB: Electrical Engineering, business
UCSD: Biomedical engineering
UCD: Agriculture
UCLA: Aerospace engineering</p>
<p>etc...</p>
<p>It's more like </p>
<p>UCB: Everything
UCSD: Biomedical Engineering
UCD: Agricultural + any thing environmental related + biological sciences.
UCLA: Business
UCSC: not sure
UCSB: Chemical Engineering/ Materials Engineering
UCI: not sure
UCR: not sure
UCM: not sure</p>
<p>UCI is definitely known for computer engineering, but I applied to both UCD and UCI for general biology</p>
<p>all UCs are good everywhere, doesn't matter much for undergrad</p>
<p>It really shouldn't matter where you go as an undergraduate. All of the UC campuses have identical (or similar) academic standards and policies, and each campus has notable faculty members. You should be able to get an excellent education at each campus. I'm an undergraduate student at UC San Diego, and I'm sure all of the classes I'm currently taking have identical counterparts at Berkeley, Davis, Riverside, etc.</p>
<p>When people talk about how different each campus is from others, they are often referring to graduate-level programs. Because I'm an undergraduate, and I can probably get the same academic experience at any campus, I'm taking other things into consideration (I'm considering transferring to Davis because there are probably more Political-Science related internships available in Sacramento than in San Diego).</p>
<p>I go to UCSD and I do think that Davis is a great school and is Prestigious. </p>
<p>In all honesty, all the UC's are very prestige. I know that the top 3 UCB,UCLA,UCSD are "special" but lets face it compared to the rest of the nations, even UCR and Merced kick ass.</p>
<p>Berkeley, LA, then the rest.
Undergrad -> all UCs equal.</p>
<p>End</p>
<p>(All UCs prestigious, B,LA, moreso than rest)</p>
<p>I think that's just a misconception people have, because Berkeley and LA are much more well known and are seen as "better" by people from other states and even around the world. Anywhere out of CA though, it beats most other schools.
But I know people who got in there with really low GPAs, so I'm guessing they're not as selective as Cal and UCLA.</p>
<p>Don't focus too much on rankings... Davis is rapidly expanding just about everything which is leading to a drop in so-called "ratings". Oftentimes people dont' even know what factors the rankings are based on, let alone how each one is weighted and considered (and by who?). Davis has "dropped" in anticipation for a "rise" in the future. But really, either way it's the same school. Quality upper-division professors, quality resources, quality life. Don't be sheep to a couple of magazines.</p>
<p>Prestige is a matter of perception. UCD is definetely in the Top 50 Universities, and for some people, that may be enough to consider it as prestigious. On the other hand, others might only think of prestigious as the Top 10 or 5 universities nationwide, which UCD does not make, unfortunately. The same reason applies to all other universities, like how some revere CalTech and others look down upon it.</p>
<p>UCD is well known nationwide, but it's just a matter of "Is it well known enough?"</p>
<p>Like others have pointed out, being part of the UC system is prestigious enough IMO, because UCs themselves are considered one of the best university systems nationwide.</p>
<p>My personal opinion: If I were to go to Davis, I'd have absolutely no regrets :)</p>
<p>I just got in lol</p>
<p>:( Rejected. Nooooo! </p>
<p>3.8 UC
2110/760/730</p>