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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I am the PP who just posted serially about CSUs not being the equivalent of UCs.  Now that I am at a computer, I just wanted to clarify that I think that CSU is a wonderful public system for California - I have siblings and friends who went there, and my dad was even tenured there.  BUT the comparisons being thrown out here are just weird:  CSU vs Harvey Mudd, really?  CSU is essentially a working class/middle class professional school - the kind of system where in fact the vast majority of college students in this country go. Its strengths are producing educated workers for California, like teachers and nurses, as well as providing an affordable university option (tuition is 1/2 that of UCs, I believe).

All that said, I'm just scratching my head to think of the DCUM child for whom UNC is an attainable option, for whom a CSU would make sense. [/quote]

Agreed, and I went to Cal Poly.  It would be ridiculous to choose most CSUs over options like UNC.  The only schools where it could make sense is someplace like Poly for Engineering, Architecture, etc. but then, as noted above, you can't get in as an OOS anyway.  If a CSU has spots to give to OOS students, it's probably not one of the better schools.  We go to San Luis Obispo every summer and DS would love to go to Poly but that's not happening, nor is any other CA university -- he can go to a good VA state university and pay in-state tuition.  If he wants to move to CA he can do that after college.[/quote]

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