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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reposting bc my blurb ended up in the middle of a quote.
This rings true for my son’s top Bay Area private. Most of the wealthy kids go to private universities. We could pay for private no problem. My son didn’t want to go out of state. He didn’t have the chops for my alma mater, Stanford, or for Cal, UCLA, Pomona or CMC. I wasn’t going to pay good money for Pitzer or Occidental. So he ended up Davis. He loves it there! The kids are just as smart as those at Cal but the learning is much more collaborative and there’s no gatekeeping with the clubs. I love that I’m spending less to educate, house and feed him than I did just to educate him at his SF private.[/quote]

I think that you made ended up in a great spot given the options that you mentioned. Davis is a great school.[/quote]

UC Davis is a welcoming place for students, integrated into a pleasant college town, with Central Park, a gathering place with many community activities, just to the east of campus.  It also has some cool quirky (in a good way) things for students to do, like volunteer as a programmer at KDVS, teach and take classes at the Experimental College and work at the Bike Barn.  It is a Top50 school that isn't as socially and academically as stressful as many of the alternatives.  Despite having over 30,000 students, it has preserved some of the small college vibe that it had in the 1960s and 1970s.[/quote]

Are you ok with 30% of kids being Asian though? At least it’s not 40% like Berkeley.[/quote]
Given the demographics of California, I think it’s highly likely my daughters-in-law will be Asian.[/quote]

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