<p>boquist 1,
I agree with most of what you are stating. I am sure your student got into and could have gone to other UC’s that would have been a better education then USC. My Daughter will graduate in December from UCSD early. My son passed up ucsd, ucsb and davis for out of state. He wants out of California for good. The UC system really gets “dummied down” when ELC goes from 4% to 9% admission this year. I have seen the elc students flunk out of ucsd because they were not prepared. Both of my kids are 31 act, 3.8 gpa from a top public orange county h.s. and that put them in the 28th %. They can also excel and graduate in 3 years at the next level where many of the elc students drop out or transfer. Welcome to “socialist” Kalifornia.</p>