(05-05-2017 12:41 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(05-04-2017 11:13 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  There is no restriction on Athletics and major at UC. The Admissions did not give him Engineering, MIT did.

The number of slots for Engineering is extremely limited at UCs. Demand is massively higher than slots. This is because so many of the high performing kids come from parents in technical fields. Like this boy, I sent mine out of State to a private school in New England for Engineering because the UC would not give him a slot. Funny thing is due to our high income we get zero discount for UC, but my son qualified on his UC general admission scores to roughly $70K in Grants and due to having a technical degree able to get two summer jobs netting him another $20K. So it's actually slightly cheaper to send him to a private school in New England than to a UC, and he can get any major he wants.

I don't think people outside California know how ridiculous the standards are to get into Engineering at a UC. My son also got into two honors Engineering schools in for Big Ten schools, one offering such a deep discount on the grants that his tuition would have only been $7K a year, about the same as any CSU. But he could not get any UC Engineering.

The UCSD Dean was not joking when he said the athletes in their program were like having Ivy League students.

It's ridiculous how small and inadequate the UC system is. Proportional to its size, the 10-campus UC system has one of the smallest enrollments of any state flagships in the nation.

It ticks me off to hear people talk about how the UC system is a "model" that others should copy. The system is a poster child for a poor use of taxpayer money. CA educates fewer of its citizens than any other state despite providing the 9th highest per-capita subsidy of any state towards higher education.

Ugh, if it's "model," then are people suggesting multiple state systems? UC is what you want people to see, but CSU is more the reality. And that isn't a dig on the CSU system...CSU is just more comprehensive and looks more like what other states have.

But, you're right. UC is...not as it should be.