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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are two paths that this is taking…one kids straight out of high school and two kids dropping out of college.

In the Bay Area at least, there are some high stat kids that jump directly into full time jobs at various sizes of tech companies. They had connections or were good enough to land an internship, did great at the internship and were offered full time employment, and they didn’t get into any UCs higher than Merced or Riverside despite having incredibly high stats. Despite having OOS or private college acceptances, the cost and/or step down in rank wasn’t appealing. As the job market in tech has gone south, they didn’t want to give up their foot hold in tech. The ones that we know of that have done this have done or are doing community college classes online so that they are ready to transfer into a highly ranked UC as a junior in several years. UCs have lots of older transfer students.

I can see why this is a smarter path than going to a lower ranked university for four years, spending hundreds of thousands on it, being away from the tech center and struggling to find a job four years later.[/quote]

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