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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US News is the only place anyone looks for how good a school is.

In fact, my child is applying to UC Merced, which is basically one of the Top 50 schools in the entire country according to US News..

Now Merced has an acceptance rate of 90% and a yield rate of 9%, and the last time SAT's were reported, it had 25% of their students scoring below a 990.  It's SAT average was 1080.

But everyone knows the data lies and US News speaks truth to power.

So we are all in on UC Merced.  GO BOBCATS!!! It is Stanford's new rival![/quote]
No one in California wants to go to Merced- it’s a trash town with nothing to do and the school is very low quality. US news boosts them out of pity for public universities. The only public university worth its salt against the top private universities is Berkeley, relnown in almost every academic subject. Every other Uc and public university is way over ranked [/quote]

Excuse me. Merced is not a trash town. It's near Yosemite National Park. And the reason UC Merced jumped up in US New rankings is because they give a lot of weight to Social Mobility (30% of ranking) so UC Merced has been able to propel a lot of 1st gen students to higher social mobility and is being rewarded for that.

UC continues to be a crown jewel public school, esp if you live in CA.[/quote]

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