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[quote=Anonymous]Observations from someone who group in an extremely immigrant-dense middle and lower-middle class part of the Bay Area: Few of the kids and parents at my school were prestige obsessed. The overwhelming focus was on what was affordable and best for one's career, which meant educational pathways to programming, medicine, or, to a lesser extent, law. UCs were the focus, with Berkeley on top because it was affordable, local, and internationally very well known. I'm sure kids in affluent towns like Los Altos, Piedmont, or Orinda were obsessing over HYPSM and LACs like AWS though. As for Southern California, it's certainly academically competitive. But where it really shines is sports. I played in a travel club sport and in Olympic development teams all over the western half of America, and I don't think any region was as focused or obsessed with youth athletic development as Southern California. [/quote]
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