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Boston blows weather-wise. Maxim described the women there as "orc-like." I did five years. Yeah it's got the Sox and some other good features (including the best sports section of any newspaper in the country), but you would have to really like slush, hate good food, and be a serious Catholic to prefer that over California. The collective culture there is definitely a plus, although if you are from the South or West it all seems very rude for the first few months til you realize everyone just hassles each other. The biggest proponents of Boston are those who are from there and haven't lived in the better places, or people who visited in late May or late September.

Stanford cannot be beat. After that UCSD for living. San Francisco is great but Berkeley is very crowded and too big for most people. Berkeley has the best cheap food and the crunchiest student body of the ones you listed.

my 2 cents.

Matt

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Boston blows weather-wise. Maxim described the women there as "orc-like." I did five years. Yeah it's got the Sox and some other good features (including the best sports section of any newspaper in the country), but you would have to really like slush, hate good food, and be a serious Catholic to prefer that over California. The collective culture there is definitely a plus, although if you are from the South or West it all seems very rude for the first few months til you realize everyone just hassles each other. The biggest proponents of Boston are those who are from there and haven't lived in the better places, or people who visited in late May or late September.

Stanford cannot be beat. After that UCSD for living. San Francisco is great but Berkeley is very crowded and too big for most people. Berkeley has the best cheap food and the crunchiest student body of the ones you listed.

my 2 cents.

Matt

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Thanks. Boston sounds a bit like Great Britain.

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Weak sauce. You should check out USD. Amazing campus with amazingly good looking women. Pretty good school as well.

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don't listen to this. USD is a terrible school compared to UCSD and they're close enough by that it really doesn't matter where you go if you just wanna meet hot chicks.

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Thanks. Boston sounds a bit like Great Britain.

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England has more overbites.

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don't listen to this. USD is a terrible school compared to UCSD and they're close enough by that it really doesn't matter where you go if you just wanna meet hot chicks.

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Everyone I know that has gone to UCSD under or post grad hates the school. They like the location etc, but think the school is miserable.

JustinA may be able to give the best opinion since he goes there (undergrad though), so...

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I'll list a few priorities. They are roughly in order or importance to me.

1) Quality of the uni. I want to enhance my chances of a career in academia, learn from brilliant minds, be around smart people. It is also important that I can find a supervisor in an area of interest to me.

2) The students. I want to meet interesting, smart, open minded and diverse people. Don't want too many bible bashers.

3) Opportunities to indulge in my interests, and take up new ones. One thing that appeals to me about CA is that I am a keen boxing fan, and lots of the top bouts are either there or in Vegas. I also like poker, bridge, backgammon etc. Would like to experience new cultures, so CA again appeals to me as it borders Mexico. Nice variety of restaurants is good. I am not a big nightclubber so that doesn't really bother me. Nice live music places (Jazz, Indie, Classical) would be cool.

4) Climate. I fkn hate the English climate. I want blue skies with a big round yellow thing visible in the middle of it. I want to be able to play tennis on most days of the year, rather than the exception. Being able to go for a walk at 21:00 without having to put on 20 layers of clothing would also be very nice.

Probably lots of other things I forgot to mention too.

Thanks, some good replies so far.

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Go dawgs...100 percent.
Lots of girls, lots of bars, good sports, warm.

-JMP

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I want to meet interesting, smart, open minded and diverse people.

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10. University of Rochester

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I have to question any list that puts Rochester at number 10 in anything, let alone quality of phd programs.