[PeppyGPhiB]

Schools in the Pac-10:

Stanford - private
Cal - public, oldest greek system on the west coast
Washington - public, biggest greek system on the west coast
WSU - public
UCLA - public
USC - private
Oregon - public
OSU - public
Arizona - public
ASU - public

Two of the schools in the Pac-10 are private, including USC, which you mention as having a smaller enrollment than Florida...but I don't see what that has to do with anything. The public schools of the Pac-10 are similar in size to the schools of the SEC. Many of the schools in the Pac-10 have a reputation for academic excellence and are on USNWR's list of top 50 national universities - they have extremely competitive admissions requirements and attract students from all over the world. In general most of these schools also have very diverse student bodies. I'll leave it to you to decide what the goals and aspirations might be of all the students who attend these universities, but as you can imagine, it varies greatly from school to school.