“I saw this and actually showed them this. However, my parents generally don’t care about any ranking system and neither do I. They quote-unquote “don’t need anyone telling them which schools are good” haha. Yet they were impressed with Michigan’s standing in the global rankings which is part of the reason why they are interested enough to take me to Campus Day.”
This makes little sense to me. I guess your parents are interested in admit rates only. What other reason would they want to let you be full pay for UCLA over Michigan for engineering?