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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pomona over Penn and Dartmouth. All great schools, but Pomona was the best fit. No regrets a year later.

In California in the 90's, I had many friends who chose Cal and UCLA over Ivies. I also had friends who chose UC Davis and UCSB over Cal and UCLA. Cost, fit, and location are important to a lot of folks. If I still lived in California, I probably would have urged my kid toward a UC on the basis of value. I'm still a West Coaster at heart where I think "prestige" is less valued than it is on the East Coast. (Maybe this has changed?)[/quote]

California is one of the very few states whose best public schools offer an education on par with that of the country's most selective schools (and, as the well-informed know, no one with a hardcore interest in majoring in engineering or computer science chooses Harvard over Cal). While no school is perfect, Cal and UCLA offer an enviable balance in that they attract some of the brightest, most intellectually curious undergraduates while enrolling and graduating a fairly economically diverse student body. [/quote]

Agree that Cal and UCLA attract some of the brightest kids but nobody chooses Cal over Harvard for any subject.  (Except for financial reasons.)  The kids in EECS at Cal mostly come from high-pressure families who are obsessed with HYPSM.[/quote]

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