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[quote=deadzone]But you already have those things in LA and Bay Area. If that is what you want, move to those places. Why would you want that here? Is San Diego really lacking for anything at this point?
Again, as good a school as USCD is, it is not particularly prestigious on a National or International level. Never will be compared with UCLA or Cal. Can you name one famous alumni? Mike Judge, is the only one I can think of, he is brilliant![/quote]
Really? https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/biomedical-rankings. Being #4 above Standford isn’t prestigious?

https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/about/rankings

[Anonymous]

[quote=sdrealtor] academically on its way to passing UCLA some day[/quote]

Let me know when that “someday” arrives okay.

[sdrealtor]

[quote=deadzone][quote=sdrealtor] academically on its way to passing UCLA some day[/quote]

Let me know when that “someday” arrives okay.[/quote]

That day has already come for many programs. Like AN said it’s not a competition vs LA. Ucsd is the rising star in the most respected university system in the world. There are Nobel prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, academy award winners, Tony award winners, national medal of science winners and more. Sorry if you can’t keep up. I’m hearing great things about St. George Utah

[an]

[quote=deadzone][quote=sdrealtor] academically on its way to passing UCLA some day[/quote]

Let me know when that “someday” arrives okay.[/quote]
If you want to be a bioengineer and want to attend the top 5 schools, UCLA is not even in the picture. Sorry to burst your bubble.

But does these ranking really matter? Going to a top 20 university will give you plenty of quality education. The rest is up to you. A dud going to MIT will still turn out to be a dud. An entrepreneur and future CEO will do so regardless if they go to SDSU or MIT.

[Coronita]

The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise

[sdrealtor]

[quote=Coronita]The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise[/quote]

Well a certain legendary UCSD graduate has an enlargement plan

[Anonymous]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=Coronita]The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise[/quote]

Well a certain legendary UCSD graduate has an enlargement plan[/quote]

Who…FLU? Or Evelyn Lyn?

[scaredyclassic]

My 4.2 99th percentile sat 3d kid did not get into SDSU, where my older lesser grades kid did. Standards definitely rising. I love SDSU for at least giving one of my kids a quality cheap engineering degree. I think the 3d kid would’ve got into my ivy league alma mater, but not fucking SDSU. Bummer.

Going to be very happy to be done paying college tuition. Extremely proud that I was able to get 3 through with no debt. Would not have believed it would happen 20 years ago when I was broke with 150k in student loan debt myself.

(Pats self on back)

I always thought it was cheesy at graduations when the speaker would ask grads to turn around and give their folks a hand for all their support

But goshdarnit, now that I’m old, I feel like I deserve a round of applause.

(Claps for self).

[Coronita]

[quote=deadzone][quote=sdrealtor][quote=Coronita]The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise[/quote]

Well a certain legendary UCSD graduate has an enlargement plan[/quote]

Who…FLU? Or Evelyn Lyn?[/quote]

Lol. I didn’t go to UCSD. I went to a pedigree Ivy League. Not that it mattered much.

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic]My 4.2 99th percentile sat 3d kid did not get into SDSU, where my older lesser grades kid did. Standards definitely rising. I love SDSU for at least giving one of my kids a quality cheap engineering degree. I think the 3d kid would’ve got into my ivy league alma mater, but not fucking SDSU. Bummer.

Going to be very happy to be done paying college tuition. Extremely proud that I was able to get 3 through with no debt. Would not have believed it would happen 20 years ago when I was broke with 150k in student loan debt myself.

(Pats self on back)

I always thought it was cheesy at graduations when the speaker would ask grads to turn around and give their folks a hand for all their support

But goshdarnit, now that I’m old, I feel like I deserve a round of applause.

(Claps for self).[/quote]

It’s not easy to get into SDSU these days for STEM related studies.

In my past 20+ years, I have seen very successful people from all sorts of solid state schools more so
than pedigree private schools.

[Coronita]

[quote=limkotir]I think most of your are much more a seasoned traveler than I am, both domestically and internationally, but for some of the places I have visited, in the back of my mind, I would be like, nope, this area would never produce or attract the level of talent, companies or technologies, vs. pockets of the U.S. such as Silicon Valley, SF, Boston, and etc.

I mean, even for big college towns, say, Texas A&M at College Station, outside of those are tied down because they work on-site at the school, why would anybody stay after graduation…?[/quote]

Dallas and Austin are also magnets for tech workers. I had a tenant that moved there after living here for 5 years.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Coronita]

It’s not easy to get into SDSU these days for STEM related studies.

In my past 20+ years, I have seen very successful people from all sorts of solid state schools more so
than pedigree private schools.[/quote]

Screw these over priced and overrated Universities. If you can make 200-300K as a programmer nowadays, working from home, without a Degree from an elite University (or without any degree perhaps), why waste the time and money? That time could be better spent taking focused training courses. In my day you could justify the 4-5 years of partying at a University because public schools used to be cheap and relatively easy to get into.
I only bashed UCSD because if you are the type that it is important to have a degree from an “elite” University, UCSD will simply never look as good on your resume as UCLA, Cal or other traditional power schools.

[sdrealtor]

So you spent five years partying at a cheap and easy to get into public university. You don’t make 200 to 300 K working from home. You don’t own a home and are jealous of those of us who do. And you were bashing smart hard-working people who will bust their ass to get into Ucsd, never have the résumé that looks as good as Ucla, Cal or other traditional powers schools but will make a lot more money than you ever will. Well that just sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime

[Anonymous]

[quote=sdrealtor]So you spent five years partying at a cheap and easy to get into public university. You don’t make 200 to 300 K working from home. You don’t own a home and are jealous of those of us who do. And you were bashing smart hard-working people who will bust their ass to get into Ucsd, never have the résumé that looks as good as Ucla, Cal or other traditional powers schools but will make a lot more money than you ever will. Well that just sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime[/quote]

I didn’t bash anyone for going to UCSD so stop making stuff up you asshat.

[Coronita]

[quote=deadzone]

Screw these over priced and overrated Universities. If you can make 200-300K as a programmer nowadays, working from home, without a Degree from an elite University (or without any degree perhaps), why waste the time and money?

[/quote]

Great idea dz….How did that work out for you in tech as an engineer back in 2000 ish?

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That time could be better spent taking focused training courses.

[/quote]
Great idea dz. Again, how did that work out for you while you were briefly in tech in 2000?

I went to an pedigree Ivy league, graduated close to top of my class with an EE degree. I didn’t take more than 2 computer science class in college, and almost flunked one of it wasn’t for last minute office hours (ok, the senior TA was hot and was a good reason for going to office hours, but it got me to study). My interest in software didnt really start until after I started working and all based on 2 UCSD Extension classes. Everything else was self taught, and whatever work I could pick up in software. And then being given an software engineering job opportunity at a bay area startup.

So, do you need a fancy CS degree from a fancy school in order to do reasonably well in software ? No. Does it help? Maybe. I think it helps to the extent that if you are reasonably capable of surviving 4 years of a tough engineering school at a decent university , there’s a high probability you have the work ethics and mental capabilities to learn whatever you want on your own, whatever that may be. Whether it’s software you never knew about or learning how to invest. People underestimate the importance of work ethics and determination that 4 years dedicated to a demanding degree and/or school is. Character and work ethics building more so than the degree itself.

I would say what matters the most
is how determined versus lazy you are and how positive versus pessimistic you are. That’s the killer of opportunity more often than the degree one has or the school one is from. Some people are so baselessly arrogant that they talk themselves into doing nothing for themselves , which over the long period of times is very self destructive and defeating imho, especially if major career and financial decisions are made based off of this

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In my day you could justify the 4-5 years of partying at a University because public schools used to be cheap and relatively easy to get into.
[/quote]

Great, how did that work out for you

[quote]
I only bashed UCSD because if you are the type that it is important to have a degree from an “elite” University, UCSD will simply never look as good on your resume as UCLA, Cal or other traditional power schools.[/quote]

Your reasons for bashing UCSD is just so far flung, it’s further flung than the lizards from bearishgurl’s hood. What would you know about hiring for tech and medical? Have you even hired anyone or been in a role to hire anyone throughout your career? What is your career BTW, and what are your qualifications to be justifying your really off and baseless sweeping statements.

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