Right, that was what I posted as well, we actually agree then.
“Davis has a much wider breadth of majors and is far cheaper, both reasons why they’d get more applications.”
Pomona has 8K, the same as Cal Tech, which less majors as well. It’s not that Davis has more, it’s an order of magnitude (80K to 8K). The reason I picked Pomona was not only in CA, but they tout their small class sizes (8:1) and Davis (subject of the thread) doesn’t.
“Not sure that logic works in CA where there are a large # of families who are full-pay”
Davis is going to have its share of wealthy families attending it, agree, according to the NYT mobility index, UCD has 45% of families in the top-20% of income, to your point, 9% in the bottom 20%, so 46% in the middle 60%, average income is $96K.
Anyway I didn’t know CS was a new major, here’s a letter from Reed students expressing concern:
https://reedquest.org/articles/2022/2/25/a-letter-from-concerned-computer-science-juniors