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UCLA is an excellent school highly respected by employers and grad schools alike. I am a proud alum. The problem is the terrible fiscal condition of California/the system makes for difficulties in class selection, graduating on time, getting into a chosen major, etc. It is the very reason that I did not allow my children to apply to any UC school.

[b]Also, the very mission of the UCs is NOT undergraduate education, it is graduate education and research[/b]. So keep that in mind.[/quote]

This could be said of all of the better state flagships-- Michigan, Wisconsin, UMD, etc.[/quote]

Actually, it’s true of virtually every research university.[/quote]
NP. Yes, but there is something about the UC system that is extra brutal for undergrads IMO. I went to grad school at Berkeley, and it was very tough for students to graduate in four years due to over-subscription of core classes - across all majors. TA'd one of the engineering weeder courses - when kids dropped out it was like "good, room for someone else". I've spoken to parents who have kids at Berkeley, and they report it is still just as competitive, unsupportive, and tough if you can't advocate strongly for yourself. I loved the school, loved the area, didn't love some of the internal culture and internal politicking. Don't regret going to engineering grad school there, but wouldn't ever send a kid for undergrad.[/quote]

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