Very Confused...

PurpleTitan
Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:52:12 +0000

Or the parents really don’t/can’t shell out $250K for college. You’re not an adult yet, so you probably don’t realize that an income of $200K+ a year doesn’t really go far in CA.

Also, Cal and the other UC’s are really good schools that can get you very far.

In fact, if you rank by alumni accomplishments, Cal is an Ivy-equivalent (roughly on par with Brown and UPenn):
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1682986-ivy-equivalents-p3.html

Also, if you rank by median mid-career salary, Cal is below UPenn (no doubt helped by all those Wharton grads) but above Brown (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Salaries_for_Colleges_by_Region-sort.html)

So why pay twice as much to get just as far?