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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wasn’t until after I graduated from an Ivy League school that I knew that “Cal” and “Berkeley” are the same school. 
Ivy League schools can be as far off some people’s radar as California schools were off of mine. [/quote]

Really? I had no idea.[/quote]

You didn’t know Cal was Berkeley?

I think another phenomenon this points to is the ridiculous obsession with going OOS for “prestige,” not realizing that state college systems are inherently regional and serve the good of the state. So yeah, I knew Cal was Berkeley because I grew up there, but totally reasonable if you are in DC and didn’t know that. [/quote]

Californian living in DC. If someone doesn’t know Cal is Berkeley, I figure they are mildly uneducated or first gen. Just like I would feel the same way if they didn’t know the difference between Penn and Penn State or that Brown is in the Ivy League, or that Barnard is part of Columbia, etc. [/quote]

DP. I know all of those things listed in your last sentence, but I didn’t know Cal and Berkeley were the interchangeable. Growing up on the East coast, I’ve just never much paid attention to things in California I guess.[/quote]

This.  And I was born in the Bay Area and visited the Berkeley campus as a child and my Dad was 2x employed by the University of California.  We moved east when I was in middle school.  I think only California people and sports people know Berkeley as "Cal".

I only learned this from my son's OOS friends at his school explaining where their friends went to school.  I was really confused as to why Berkeley is "Cal" and not UCLA.[/quote]

As a native of Southern California, I never knew “Cal” referred to Berkeley.  Why should it when all of the UCs are “The University of California.”  Berkeley is just one campus, albeit the flagship.  But why shouldn’t UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSB, UC Santa Cruz, and all the others have the right to call themselves “Cal”? [/quote]

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