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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The come-lately UC schools are highly overrated. Several years ago, they got a ranking boost when USNWR started tracking social mobility. Translation: schools that accept a lot of poor students and graduate them to professional jobs are going to look good. That, however doesn’t say so much about the quality of education as it does about the [b]ongoing prestige of a four-year college degree.[/b] For OOS students, UC schools are hard to get into because CA overwhelmingly reserves seats for in-state students. Again, a low OOS admit rate doesn’t necessarily mean a quality education. [/quote]

No, it says more about the wealth of the population base in general.  The UC schools get more low-income and very poor applicants because the population reflects that.  That's why their Pell Grant numbers are high. Virginia's is not because the average income per capita is higher.  So long as USN&WR is going to reward number of Pell grant students, etc., the UC schools will go up on the rankings but I wouldn't want my kid there.  - Californian[/quote]

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