Talk about missing the forest for the trees………
California residents have to be worried about those middle class parents who make 200K+, and have top students for kids, but won’t get any or too little FA to send them to a top private school, so they look at UCLA and UCB as their best affordable (due to COL in CA) choices (maybe only choices as far as they are concerned for their very bright children) only to be denied by the dropping acceptance rates………