A question for state schoolers

[tld221]

Originally Posted by Glitter650

My school is one of two in the system that is simply (city) State University The others are all Cali State UNiversity @ (city) I've heard this is because the first two were founded before the whole system was formalized into the California State University system. They also DID just change the name of California State University Hayward to "California State University East Bay"
I personally didn't really like this name change, but it was done to "better reflect the geographic location the students represent == shrugs==


All the University of California are University of California at (city) but that is a completely different system. =)

slightly off-topic, but i have this argument with my boss ALL THE TIME. are there levels of "prestige" within the UC system? For example, UCLA and Berkeley are pretty up there, and others are... not? My boss says theyre all the same cause theye state schools (to which i say, well they all have their own administration and student bodies). but then he says all the SUNY schools (NY's state school system) are different because theyre "in different locations."

clearly hes an idiot - but i will say, IMO, the SUNYs dont have much prestige amongst each other (though im sure Albany, Binghamton and Buffalo, Old West and Stonybrook get more play than say, SUNY Plattsburgh, Onieda and Potsdam)

side note: this is why it would piss me off when the actors on Felicity would refer to NYU as "University of NY," cause umm... NYU =/= SUNY.

[Glitter650]

Originally Posted by tld221

slightly off-topic, but i have this argument with my boss ALL THE TIME. are there levels of "prestige" within the UC system? For example, UCLA and Berkeley are pretty up there, and others are... not? My boss says theyre all the same cause theye state schools (to which i say, well they all have their own administration and student bodies). but then he says all the SUNY schools (NY's state school system) are different because theyre "in different locations."

clearly hes an idiot - but i will say, IMO, the SUNYs dont have much prestige amongst each other (though im sure Albany, Binghamton and Buffalo, Old West and Stonybrook get more play than say, SUNY Plattsburgh, Onieda and Potsdam)

side note: this is why it would piss me off when the actors on Felicity would refer to NYU as "University of NY," cause umm... NYU =/= SUNY.

Oh yeah there's levels of prestige... I mean yeah they are all state schools, but Berkeley and UCLA are amongst the top "state" universities in the country, so they def. carry more prestige as they are harder to get into, and receive more applications.
I don't know how true this is anymore, but I know that Santa Cruz, and Riverside, and now I'm sure Merced are usually able to pretty much "guranantee" anyone UC eligble (meaning their GPA and SAT scores, are within range on a sliding scale like the Higher your SAT score the lower your GPA can be and vice versa, and you've taken the requesite HS courses) would get in.

There is also some hierarchy amongst the State University system as well, althogh not as pronounded I'd say, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo leading the way there.


Navane,
I did forget about those other (city) state University Schools, I was just tryign to point out it's not the norm, as there are only 5 named that way out of like 22 or 23 campuses.