The Heart Of Westwood Los Angeles

Acceptance into an Ivy League University is often considered the pinnacle of educational achievement. Thousands of students from around the country stress and panic, thinking that their future success is based on their acceptance into elite universities. Frank Bruni aims to change those beliefs and give parents and students some peace of mind in: Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: an Antidote to the College Admissions Mania. Bruni explains in his book that, “where we go to college will have infinitely less bearing on our fulfillment in life than so much else: the wisdom with which we choose our romantic partners; our interactions with the communities that we inhabit; our generosity toward the families we inherit and the families that we make.”

UCLA is the pioneer of persevering through impossibility, the amazing team and academic programs, structured clubs and organizations, and all activities on campus, intertwined into the program create the exceptional experience all college students hope for.

Having chosen the University of Southern California (USC) over the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as the institution to continue my educational pathway has always brought up curious questions as to why I chose one over the other. Aside from the academic stance of both institutions there were always inevitable comments about how much better the area surrounding UCLA is compared to the sketchy area surrounding USC. Having attended Foshay Learning Center about two miles from USC gave me front insight of how beautiful that area actually is despite the dark allegations. I manage to respond to those stereotype influenced notions with my high school that is actually full of hardworking underprivileged minorities striving for further higher education.

¨Sometimes you may be ´super underrated.´ But usually itś the underrated, the underdogs, the dreamers, the idealists, the fighters, the argumentative-- those are the folks who do the biggest things.¨ (Barack Obama). The University of California Irvine is a vastly diverse, innovative, and investigative university with a major intellectual and cultural center, as they captivate the community through public activities and events. UCI was one of the three newest UC campuses established in the 1960ś. On October 4th 1965, the campus began operations with 1,589 students, 241 staff members, 119 faculty, and 43 teaching assistants. At its time of opening, UCI was only at 75% in completion of campus. Since it was founded in 1965, UCI has been able to

    UCLA’s intercollegiate athletics is NCAA Division I and are part of the Pac-12 Conference, being the only UC part of the Pac-12 besides Berkeley. They offer many men’s and women’s sports, though more women’s sports are offered, from basketball to water polo to cross country for men, and from gymnastics to rowing to volleyball for women. Their biggest rival is USC, as both schools are located in Los Angeles and the football game between UCLA and USC is known as one of the more important college rivalries. However, in recent years the UCLA football team has been lacking, and USC has won the two previous matchups. Currently, there is a lot of hype and expectation surrounding the men’s basketball programs, as the

west of the San Francisco earthquake and fire zone in 1906; also known as the Fillmore neighborhood; built in the 1870s; consisted mainly of Italianate (1870s) and Stick-style (1880s) Victorian rowhouses; also had corner stores, livery stables, lumber and coal dealers, churches and synagogues, and an abandoned cable car barn; a little farther south were theaters, bakeries, and industrial uses such as laundries and breweries; several streetcar and cable car lines criss-crossed the neighborhood; following earthquake, Fillmore Street became city's main civic and commercial street for white-owned businesses; old mansions served as department stores and churches and synagogues doubled as courthouses; nearby homeowners cut up their old Victorian

As a English speaker and becoming a freshmen student, my path to attending Pomona College is significantly different from most American Students. In each stages of my academic journey in America, there were many opportunities for me to utilize my existing talents and also acquire new ones. I have taken full advantage of every opportunities presented to me. Now, I plan to contribute myself to Pomona College and expect to define one of the most memorable experiences in my life. My contributions and my experiences at this school will be essential toward success and satisfaction. They will also help shaping one of the most important stages of my academic journey.

Ever since its establishment in 1919, the University of California Los Angeles has continuously exceed expectations around the world with its neverending list of notable achievements and persists me into pursuing a position there. Located near the center of Los Angeles California, it is almost always sunny within the large, open campus, which thankfully eliminates any chances of freezing weather and pale skin. The UCLA campus offers incredible housing that is minutes from the beach and is home to the Powell Library, which contains over nine millions books and texts. UCLA has always caught my eye even without ever researching it, and I am enlightened by all the remarkable features that it has to offer. Not only does it rank itself within the top twelve universities in the world for academics, but it contains one of the most successful and accomplished faculties

Since my arrival earlier this semester, I have been impressed with our campus community's deep commitment to the mission and core values of the University of San Diego. Those core values are clearly grounded in the University’s rich Catholic intellectual tradition and imbued with a dedication to academic excellence that one would only find at a university which aspires to rank among the finest in the nation.

Allegheny College has been successfully building its academic reputation by popularizing their “unusual combination of interest and skills” promise to students who are trying to differentiate between various liberal arts colleges. Allegheny College consistently selects top performers from high schools and it ranks in the Top 5% of schools for graduates who go on to earn a doctorate degree. It has been garnering many accolades to their brand such as being named #1 up-and-coming national liberal arts college by U.S. News ranking in Spring 2012 (Roos, 2012). Additionally, Allegheny was also named one of the “Top 25 Best Liberal Arts Colleges” in Washington Monthly’s college rankings for the third year in a row. Moreover, U.S. News & World Report deemed Allegheny College as one of the 12 most innovative liberal arts colleges in the country. With a wide variety of majors offered and a commendable teacher to student ratio, Allegheny College boasts various institutional strengths that have promising financial consequences.

Many prospective students have commented that during campus tours and visits, the academic rigor of F&M is constantly boasted about, so much so that the rigor of F&M’s academics is discussed more than the academics itself. In fact, it is noted that students and faculty are proud of the fact that F&M students outwork Harvard students. The truth is, if we have to work that hard; it would be nice to get the prestige that comes with that hard work. Instead, we are rewarded with a false sense of superiority, one that does not translate to genuine academic success. If we want to continue to recruit a diverse and talented pool of students to F&M, we must show them that this is an institution where hard work is valued by professors, and assignments aren’t merely assigned for the sake of accumulating tasks to brag

The Daily Trojan is a student newspaper from the University of Southern California, which has been continuously recognized for providing a free space for students to discuss and explore responsible intellectual conversations about the USC community. This newspaper gives students a medium to express their thoughts through writing and informing the student population of rising issues at the school. The issue that I focus on in my editorial called “Transfer Students, Who?” is the lack of integration that the USC transfer student population is having with transitioning into USC, which can be alleviated through the development of a transfer student center. One of the main reasons that the editorial starts off with presenting the statistics of transfer

For more than twenty-seven years, I’ve worked to expand college preparation and access for students in California and throughout the Western United States through strategic engagement efforts, partnerships, and collaborations. It has

As childhood comfort slowly slips away when children transition from elementary, middle, to high school, the idea that seemed so fantastical in toddlers’ daydreams becomes concrete and frightening: the future. High school students are presented with a short four year period to decide what they want to pursue, and the junior year of high school is where most students are hit hardest. As a junior, the daunting task of preparing for one’s future is suddenly presented, and everything one has accomplished in life, in combination with many standardized tests, will be assembled to do one task: applying and choosing a place of higher education. Three important criteria in college searching are admission standards, location, and athletic programs, and two post-high school institutions, Rice University and the University of California- Berkeley, will be compared based on these aspects.

As Americans look towards the idea of college today, some may agree that the overall goals of a university have drastically changed since the popularity of higher education has increased. If one were to ask the universities what their core values consist of, most institutions would boast about student academics and growth being at the top of the list. As this response may ring true with most colleges in the US, specifically smaller schools, the increase in funds for research and athletic programs have seemingly overtaken the attention of larger, more competitive universities. Higher education has become a more popular choice among ambitious adults, providing them an opportunity to move up in the working world. Further, with this