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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this may sound crazy, but UC Merced is stealing applicants and students from Yale, Oxford and Cambridge.  It is a force.

I know my neighbor, 1600 SAT, 4.0, math olympiads, gunning either for hedge fund or biomedical research whose dream school is UC Merced.

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That does sound crazy. The student you are describing should be gunning for Stanford. [/quote]

Never heard of the school until this year.  Everything has become too preprofessional.  My kid is at Harvard with the goal of getting a PhD in Math.  I told her not to think about internships. [b] Money follows passion[/b].  [/quote]
ummm yea, tell that to every starving artist/musician/actor.

FWIW, my one kid is a dual math major, and another loves the theater.[/quote]

I had the same reaction. :D it is a luxury to be able to follow one's passion without thought to income. However, aside from the very top success stories, most of the musicians and artists I know who manage to live comfortably are only able to do so because they come from wealthy families or have a spouse with a high earning career.

This makes me wonder... if the WSJ rankings are heavily skewed towards ROI, this will definitely ding schools that have more humanities and arts majors, and favor schools that have more kids go into finance. Anyone know if this is factored into the methods somehow?[/quote]

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