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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think UVA is more unpredictable than has a hard floor. Plenty of kids with more average stats get in since its a public school and they’re supposed to educate students from the state. Could be worse. Could be like the UCs where it seems like they pick names out of a hat. And that’s how you get UCSDs whole math score fiasco[/quote]

I completely agree with this assessment. DC (FCPS) was accepted to UCSD and we toured and were so unimpressed by the school, the students, the tour guide - all of it. I know it is highly ranked, but cannot figure out how. [/quote]

It is a concrete jungle that happens to be near the ocean.  I was shocked when we drove around the campus.  Can’t speak to the quality of education, supposed to be good for STEM.[/quote]

Agree, the campus is very disjointed, ugly and disappointing.  Go two blocks off campus, however, and it’s beautiful ocean and La Jolla.[/quote]

The answer, from this so cal person, is that east coast kids have a mythical ideal of what west colleges might be like and stupidly fall in love without having any idea of what they are getting into (traffic, cars, fires, earthquakes, traffic jams, overtaxation in CA, extreme travel costs, especially to bring in family for Graduation) and never even study quality of education.  “Going west” in my book is stupid. I grew up on the west coast, went to a failing SLAC out there and Yale law. There is no reason to go through the expense and hassle to do undergrad out west. None. And no, you can’t ski in the morning and surf in the afternoon as the Claremont colleges want to brag. I returned from Riverside yesterday. You do not want to drive that …. Ever.[/quote]

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