<p>I hear ya…</p>
<p>I realize we can’t have cake and gobble it all down to ourselves. UC needs funding to overcome state shortfalls and non-residents bring it … but there is a price to pay down the road when UC isn’t educating its denizens/citizenry. </p>
<p>It isn’t like CA is lacking in well-more-than-q’ed students, as in some states that have flagships that have to fill its enrollment with students from nearby states (AZ, CO, etc) because of a general lack of population within their own. </p>
<p>If the eastcoast colleges take in a lot of CA students, there’s a better than good chance they may never come back. So it’s a double-whammy: UC’s, ie, Cal, UCLA, SD, educating a good portion of students who will leave and go home (mainly the int’ls), and a lot of top CA students will be educated elsewhere and never come back, with a result being a serious brain-drain.</p>