In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell is correct when he claims that It is better to be a “big fish in a small pond,” so attending California State University Sacramento as oppose to UC Berkeley is a better fit for me. When it comes to picking a school, nobody explains it better than Malcolm Gladwell with his “Relative Deprivation Theory”. Malcolm states that the definition of relative deprivation is “Rather than viewing ourselves and making self assessments of where we are at in terms of the world, we make them according to our immediate surroundings”. He shares with us the struggle of being a “Little fish in a big pond” and that choosing a prestigious school may not always be in our best interest. I am currently going to American River
