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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will note - the research dollars aren’t for the undergrads obviously. And almost nobody is getting those internships, girl. Those are for the serious software engineers. [/quote]

The internships are in other fields as well -  not only STEM majors.  My DC is at a different west coast public and landed a high-paying summer internship at a major tech company in their global marketing department.

According to DC, UW is to California students what Wisconsin is to east coast students. There are a lot of CA students at UW who couldn't get into the top UCs.  UW is a solid choice for a lot of majors.  [/quote]

Wisconsin?  This is really an odd comparison, I think, because I think verrrrry few East Coasters think about Wisconsin, unless they have other family or friends there?  [b]How did you randomly pull this out if a hat to say UW is to CA students what WI is to East Coast students.[/b] Sounds like CA students think about UW MORE (as a solid alternative for a lot of majors, as an alternative to UC schools) than East Coasters think about Wisconsin (zero, or very close to it?).  [/quote]

I'm the PP you're quoting.  I didn't pull it out of anywhere.  My DC who goes to school in CA, but grew up in DC and graduated from a DC high school, came to this conclusion after spending two years in a friend group of mostly CA born and raised kids.  This is just my DC's opinion.  That said, we have a lot of friends and family that live in the Bay Area, work in tech, and are Asian.  Most of their kids in the past five years have been shut out of the top UCs for engineering or computer science, even with top stats.  Several of them have landed at U Dub.  My DC equates it with DC area kids going to Wisconsin after not getting into Michigan.  Again - just an ovbservation from college students![/quote]

I grew up in NoVA in the 80s and 90s. I never gave Wisconsin one iota of thought and knew no one who went to school there.  The state as a whole came into my own purview once I attended college in Chicago and obviously started to meet a lot of people from Wisconsin.  Since I have returned to the DC area, it has once again receded into the background of my awareness except for he occasional time I meet people who went to school there or who are from there.  Jus try own personal experience.  [/quote]

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