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Originally Posted by mit_peid
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. |
It's interesting that USC gets singled out in your comparison. What about all of the other top-ranked private schools who charge comparable, if not higher tuition rates than USC?
It makes perfect sense that from all of the investment into new facilities at USC and cutbacks in public education that UCLA might slip a spot or two. After reaching a certain tier, the absolute ranking makes little difference - it becomes about the brand name of the school more than anything.