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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the midwest, and Duke was gaining a lot of popularity in my area at the time, but here on the West Coast, it's not very popular. Any reason why? For example, our high performing public school will have 20 applicants to each of the Ivies, but some years none to Duke. I also don't see a lot of Duke matriculants from the private schools in our area. [/quote]

Just a guess from CA, but the South is not that popular out here, especially with support for Trump in recent years, and, despite what others might think, people here don’t consider Duke equal to an Ivy.

To give you an idea, someone talked about their daughter going to Tulane for a semester exchange and humorously called it her “study abroad” program.

I’ve lived out here since the early 1970s and most of the people I encounter here with southern roots like me are African Americans.[/quote]

I don't know where you are in California, but at every single college tour I took my daughter on last spring, there were several California families (and we even saw some of the same families at different schools which was nuts). All in the south. In one tour (LSU), out of the 10 families in our group, 5 of them were from California (and one asked if it was always so humid there, I had to laugh). We went to: LSU, Tulane, SC, Auburn, Ole Miss, FSU, FL, Miami. I asked a family that we had seen at three schools why they were looking at southern schools (to make conversation while we waited for the Miami tour to start) and the mother said their kids wanted a similar climate to California weather wise (you can argue that they're not similar, but that's what she said), but wanted to go further away from home. They were from Orange County. We met families from LA, SF and Santa Barbara.

So I'm not so sure about your theory, but I don't live in California, I am in the DMV.[/quote]

New poster, but basically those kids you saw are a minority of California high schoolers, even amongst UMC ones. For most, it’s UC’s or bust. Just like in Virginia. People are budget conscious and have good in-state options. California obviously has a lot of wealth and we have a lot of teenagers so you will see them everywhere, even if they are the minority. [/quote]

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