LAGriz67 said:
Hey Citygriz...I believe it was the Plush Room at the York on Sutter St...it is no longer the hot jazzy place it was, but has made some new changes...the cabaret is gone...
As for the Stanford is best crowd..obviously, they are either affilitated with the Farm or wannabe...trust me, in Socal..a degree from UCLA or USC is far more meaninful..and the last I heard, it is UCLA that has won 100 NCAA championships, has over 15 Nobel Prize winners, the very highest rating on medical schools, and, it is UC Berkeley that has Boalt Hall (?) THE law school of the West...Stanford has a huge 32 billion endowment and never stops asking...trust me....I can gladly forward the solicitations to anyone who thinks Stanford is the cat's meow...Still, I hope the Tinkle girl has the sense her father and mother gave her and makes the decisions SHE wants...including NOT playing if that is what she wants...
Oh, I thought we were done.....
A) Maybe, but surely only in SoCal is a UCLA or University ofSecondChoice degree more meaningful.
B) Overall university rankings:
1. Princeton University (NJ)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Yale University(CT)
4.
Stanford University(CA)
5. University of Pennsylvania
5. California Institute of Technology
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. Duke University(NC)
9. Columbia University(NY)
9. University of Chicago
11. Dartmouth College(NH)
12. Washington University in St. Louis
12. Cornell University(NY)
14. Brown University(RI)
14. Northwestern University(IL)
14. Johns Hopkins University(MD)
17. Rice University(TX)
17. Emory University(GA)
19. Vanderbilt University(TN)
19. University of Notre Dame(IN)
21. University of California—Berkeley
22. Carnegie Mellon University(PA)
23. University of Virginia
23. Georgetown University(DC)
25.
University of California—Los Angeles
25. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
27.
University of Southern California
C) Boalt? THE Law school? HA?
Law school rankings:
1Yale University (CT)
2Stanford University (CA)
2Harvard University (MA)
4New York University
5Columbia University (NY)
6University of Chicago
6University of Pennsylvania
8University of California–Berkeley
8University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
10Duke University (NC)
10University of Virginia
12Northwestern University (IL)
13Cornell University (NY)
14Georgetown University (DC)
15University of California–Los Angeles
16University of Southern California (Gould)
Never has Stanford been ranked outside of the top three. Conversely, there have been years where Boalt (now called UC Berkeley School of Law) has been renked outside of the top 10. My source for both rankings is USN&WR (the only one anyone pays attention to.)
D) UCLA, while great in many sports, cannot touch Stanford in women's basketball. Which is, of course, the only sport that is relevant in this discussion.
E) All of this is not to say that these other universities are bad. They are not. LAGriz simply needs to do a bit of research before making his opinion into fact on this board. Of course, nobody really knows which university is the best. But one can make the best case for Stanford out west due to the existence of numerous rankings.
No, Now we're done.
PS- I'm glad that a UCLA degree is better in SoCal. I hope that transfers to law degrees too. I'm going to UCLA law, and they even admit that they are dominated by Stanford grads if they both want the same job. Sure, UCLA dominates almost any other school for SoCal jobs, but stanford is an exception. I'll be sure to tell Career Serrvices that they are wrong and LAGriz is right.