<p>^Not likely for three reasons: 1) UC is now actively recruiting wealth OOS kids, and they bring with them higher test scores. 2) The #1 competition in the race for best public is UVa, and UVa just recently realized that they don’t have a lot of poor kids. As they recruit the Pell Grantees instates, their test score growth with have to slow. (Rankings are all relative.) 3) It is the Peer Assessment scores that drive the lofty UC rankings, and cutting back undergrad classes does not impact the grad programs’ prestige by much.</p>