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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Given the way the regents and politicians are treating the UC's as a redheaded step child who's credit they can ruin for personal gain I'm surprised you expected the school to retain it's rankings. Budget cuts aren't hitting UC as hard as CSU but it's still noticeable.
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I never said I didn't understand why it was happening, just don't like that it has been happening.
The UC system has been a merit-based system that rewarded students with a world-class education for doing extremely well K-12 in CA, enabling many people like myself that grew up poor to have nothing but first world problems as an adult. USC, on the other hand, continues to reward students and their families to think money can buy anything. (Obviously I'm biased here, I know USC has made significant strides in improving test scores for incoming freshman over the last 10 years too)
I read something recently that college debt is now larger than all credit card debt. People in this generation are realizing that a college education may not be worth the 100s of thousands of dollars invested and schools like USC aren't helping the trend.