Sounds like liberal silliness, select the smartest students and leave the PC stuff on the sidelines.
I know. It's beyond unbelievable. My son is a senior and just applied to 8 of the UC schools. He has a 4.5 weighted GPA; 3.8 unweighted GPA and a 1380 SAT score and he still may not get into UCLA or Berkeley. We are actually hoping he has a realistic chance at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Davis and Irvine. And the aforementioned schools also have between 85,000 and 90,000+ applications. It's really insane, when a friend of mine got into UCLA in the late seventies with a 3.3 GPA and a 1200 SAT score.
Like Rutgers.
Yes. I've lived here for the last 34 years. I offered my son a chance to go east to Rutgers, early decision at Brown or Dartmouth and he had no desire. I can't blame him because when we toured all of the campuses out here the weather was just too nice especially in Santa Barbara and San Diego. Both of those schools are either overlooking the ocean or less than five minutes away with average temperatures year round of 72 degrees.
Trust me, when they say 33,604 it's closer to $35,000 because I have a doctor friend whose son is a freshman there and he's paying the full bill. Still a lot cheaper than private schools, based on today's environment but crazy when one sees how college tuition over the last twenty years has skyrocketed. BTW, USC lists their entire package at about $68,000 per year (for everything) but it's actually closer to $73,000 per year, which is insane.
Lived in Capitola, Ca next to Santa Cruz, for 2 years walking distance from the beach but the water was too cold. Around 75 degrees years round and when it got into the 80’s I thought it was too hot.
We visited the campus. It's pretty in that the buildings are in and around the redwood trees, but it didn't feel like a campus. It felt like a luxurious sleep away camp. But because all of the top UC schools have gotten so difficult to get into, my son has them as his safety school. And even Santa Cruz has gotten more difficult. Just five years ago, if you had a 3.4 GPA and 1090 SAT scores, you probably got in because they accepted something like 68%. Today they only accept around 50% and the unweighted GPA has risen to a 3.7 and SAT scores are around 1200. It's really gotten out of hand, because so many OOS and foreign students are now added to the equation, and the Regents can charge them $60,000+ a year as opposed to $35,000 a year for in-state.
