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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Florida should be ahead of UNC. Really smart kids are choosing UF. [/quote]

UF is a pretty easy admit for OOS students. It's on par with Wisconsin, Ohio State, UMD, VT.[/quote]

Difficulty of admission is not the same as quality, no matter how many naive people think so. [/quote]

That's like saying price is not the same thing as value but the two are not unrelated.[/quote]

If your kid was capable of a HYPSM acceptance, you would be singing an entirely different tune.

Rankings don’t matter in your world.

Student satisfaction data doesn’t matter.

Acceptance rates don’t matter.

Yield rates don’t matter.

The only thing that matters is your personal thesis, built upon the most questionable mental gymnastics imaginable, that magically catapults the school(s) you favor over higher ranked schools that you’ll always believe are undeserving of their rank.

If you can inject kooky politics into it (weirdo RWNJs attacking the UC system, weirdo LWNJs attacking UF), all the better … in your mind, anyway.[/quote]

My older kid is not at HYPSM, he applied but didn't get in.  He is at Penn and we chose it over NYU in part because of its perceived rank.  
Rankings matter to me but when your students can't do middle school math I don't think any ranking deserves to be considered.  You're just a trash school.
Acceptance rates matter to me but if you are test blind, you are going to have low acceptance rates if you have any brand value at all.  You are basically a lottery admission school.
Yield rates say something about desirability but in this case they don't matter because so many of the people Cal and UCLA accept can't get in anywhere else above a cal state.    
It's not all public schools. It's just the UCs that have become a joke.
Most of the other publics are still test optional which isn't great but you can limit the damage.  But the UCs are a mess.  I have no doubt that there are some smart kids at Cal and UCLA but there are a lot of kids at Cal that should be at a cal state[/quote]

So you have no firsthand experience with the UC system, just what you’ve seen or heard others decry as a broken system of test blind admissions?[/quote]

What first hand knowledge would make me more qualified? 
Like how would I be more qualified if I actually let my kid go to a trash school like Cal?
The students can't do middle school math.
How much more do you need?[/quote]

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