Los Angeles Westside | |
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Region | |
  Los Angeles Westside Location within West Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates:34°02′30″N118°25′31″W / 34.04153°N 118.425392°W /34.04153; -118.425392 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| Cities | Los Angeles Beverly Hills Culver City Santa Monica Malibu |
| Unincorporated areas | Marina del Rey Ladera Heights |
TheWestside of Los Angeles is an urbanregion in westernLos Angeles County, California, United States, containing part of theCity of Los Angeles, independent municipalities, and unincorporated areas of the county. It has no official definition, but sources likeLA Weekly and theMapping L.A. survey of theLos Angeles Times place the region on the western side of theLos Angeles Basin south of theSanta Monica Mountains.
According toLA Weekly, there are different perspectives on where the Westside ends and the Eastside begins.[1] Generally, the Westside is considered the area south of theSanta Monica Mountains andSepulveda Pass, and west of either:
Los Angeles Times readers submitted more than 300 maps, with borders ranging fromLincoln toLa Brea and beyond. The most common east/west dividing lines were: Downtown,La Cienega Boulevard (the most common street cited), and the 405 freeway (the most common answer).
TheTimes analyzed the results, and no single definition approached a majority. Ultimately, theLos Angeles Times Mapping Project settled on a definition comprising 101.28 square miles (262 km2), encompassing not only districts in the city ofLos Angeles but also twounincorporated neighborhoods ofL.A. County, plus the cities ofBeverly Hills,Culver City, andSanta Monica — while excluding all of the city ofWest Hollywood, even areas west of La Cienega Boulevard.[2]
According to theMapping L.A. survey of theLos Angeles Times, the Westside includes all of the below neighborhoods that are part of the city of Los Angeles:
In the2000 census, the Westside (as defined by theLos Angeles Times Mapping Project) had a population of 529,427. At that time, non-Hispanic whites made up 63% of the population.[2] The areas within the city of Los Angeles that theLos Angeles Almanac recognized as part of the Westside had a population of 413,351.[3]
According to Census Bureau figures quoted by theLos Angeles Times, fifty-three percent of West Los Angeles residents aged 25 and older had earned a 4-year degree (or higher) by 2000. This included 89,620 people withmaster's degrees or higher and 117,695 withbachelor's degrees. In addition, 95,187 people in that age range had some college experience, 46,823 heldhigh school diplomas, and 40,451 haddropped out before graduating.[2] As of 2019, the median income of the neighborhood was approximately $96,300.
The Westside is home to theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), apublicresearch university located in theWestwood neighborhood. It is the second-oldest of the ten campuses of theUniversity of California system.[4] UCLA is considered aflagship campus of the University of California system, along withUC Berkeley.[5][6][7][8] It offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs across a wide range of disciplines.[9] With an approximate enrollment of 28,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students, UCLA is the university with the largest enrollment in the state of California[10] and the most popular university in the United States by number of applicants.[11]
Other post-secondary schools in the Westside are as follows:
Other regions of Los Angeles County
The controversy over private admissions preferences strikes at the heart of the dilemma over how to allocate limited slots for undergraduates. At Berkeley and UCLA, the flagship campuses, the competition is particularly acute, and admissions officers must turn away thousands of qualified applicants each year.
In contrast, UC has UC Berkeley and UCLA, both often considered flagships, and several other campuses with high national rankings, he and other analysts said
That means any student that comes from such a family will pay less to attend Harvard than most flagship public universities, including UCLA
The Ivy League Schools and their ilk (Stanford) and the flagship UC campuses dominate their lists...and a few other less competitive UC Campuses (San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine) as fall-backs.
Westside (Los Angeles County) travel guide from Wikivoyage| By topic | |
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