why UCLA keeps dropping in USNews rankings

drax12
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:43:32 +0000

Economy won’t affect Cal and UCLA as much at UC, because of larger enrollment of non-residents, who pay full tuition.
USC is 15th in % of alumni giving; UCLA is 117th. But UCLA is in top10 every year in total private donation $s. If only 14% of UCLA donate, then that actually bodes well for the future, esp because of rankings for total $.
Superscoring and retakes help those who graduate lower in their hs graduating classes. Wealthier students can by these two things “buy” their scores. Add: USC takes students from just about any class rank to find these scores, esp at elite preps.
Per above, UCLA and Cal will have 15% and 23% non-residents in 2010 frosh classes. They aren’t 90+% instaters any more.
UC admits mature transfers into a major; UCLA rejects many perfect or near-perfect gpas because of a missing class. USC admits students from other colleges, cc, to circumvent the reporting of frosh numbers and accepts them after one year.


These were some of the corrections to misconceptions I found.