answer:UCLA It depends. If you believe that the professor and variability of academic choices are the most most important part of education than I would say UCLA is the school for you. 1. Professors are the tops in their fields. 2. The variability of academic choices is huge. 3. The formal education you receive will be top notch. But, if you believe that the people around you and the culture you study in is one of the fundamentals of being in a University, then UCLA will sorely disappoint. 1. UCLA is homogenous. Most of the people are white (though becoming more Asian every year) and wealthy. People come to school in high heels, Mercedes vehicles and Louis Vuitton handbags. 2. Most of the other students have no real life experience to draw from, so discussions remain superficial and more stupid questions are asked than should be at any top tier school. 3. UCLA is in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world. If you don’t look the part then you are not an insider. I got a great education and a degree with a prestigious name on it, but I don’t think the school is what people think it is.