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<p>I don’t believe that to be true. Most Californians that I know are not too enamored with UC Irvine. :)</p>
<p>Moreover, the fact is that the national academics themselves rank UCI higher than Tulane, at least based on Peer Assessment scores. And those higher scores factored into USNews ranking puts UC Irvine (and Davis and Santa Barbara) above Tulane.</p>