BearPD;842537870 said:
Cal State San Diego, no need to get all fancy.
You mean like University of California at Berkeley? Don't get fancy. Plus, you are wrong about San Diego State. The name Cal state San diego does not exist. The California academic system doesn't even refer to us as CSU San Diego. Go to their website. They have all the CSU's listed:
California State University, Bakersfield
California State University Channel Islands
California State University, Chico
California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, East Bay
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fullerton
Humboldt State University
California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Los Angeles
California Maritime Academy
California State University, Monterey Bay
California State University, Northridge
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State University, Sacramento
California State University, San Bernardino
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Jos State University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State University San Marcos
Sonoma State University
California State University, Stanislaus
Now you go to the UC system site and every single one of them is called University of California at....There is no Cal. San Diego State exists on both the academic side and athletics side. Cal only exists on the athletic side. On the academic side, they are University of California at Berkeley. Kind of like University of Texas at Austin. University of Oklahoma at Norman. You don't see anyone getting butt hurt over those schools. But I get what you are trying to do. Trying to expose something about another school makes you feel better. When a kid applies to Cal, he isn't applying to Cal, he is applying to University of California t Berkeley. There are 10 "Cal's" in that sense. The California education system calls you University of California at Berkeley, not Cal. The NCAA and Media calls you Cal. Which I have no grip with. So idk why you do. Now if a kid applies to SDSU, he doesn't apply to CSU San Diego. That school does not exist. When filling out his application, he/she will not find a CSU San Diego. Instead, the California educational system has our official name as San Diego State. They do that for a few other CSU's.