Best place to go to university in USA? (Esp. California)

[Matt Flynn]

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