To the editor: I sympathize with high-achieving highschool graduates similar to Jonathan Cornejo who fear they can not attend their “dream” College of California campus regardless of being admitted. Nonetheless, I disagree with the implication that these college students could be significantly reducing their requirements by attending a California State College campus.
Since UCs are inclined to cater to college students searching for superior analysis levels, it’s typically higher for bachelor’s- or grasp’s-level college students to attend a Cal State campus. Lessons are usually smaller and taught by professors somewhat than instructing assistants.
Additionally, there are 23 Cal State colleges, so college students can typically stay in cheaper or extra handy areas.
As somebody with a UC diploma who taught for a few years at a Cal State college, I really feel no must apologize for our bachelor’s and grasp’s applications.
John Lane, Stanton
The author is a professor emeritus of pc engineering and pc science at Cal State Lengthy Seashore.
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To the editor: When requested concerning the shortfall in monetary support that will maintain Cornejo from attending his “dream college” of UC San Diego, his response was brutally sincere: “You probably did all this stuff, tried your greatest. Then you definately have a look at the cash facet and see you may’t afford it.”
Cornejo cited his worry of taking up scholar mortgage debt as the first purpose for contemplating neighborhood school. What number of different sensible younger minds is the UC system prepared to lose as a result of greater tuition means many individuals should now assume colossal quantities of debt to have a good shot on the American dream?
The UC system was as soon as tuition-free; within the late Nineteen Sixties, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan modified that. Additional, our state is beset with a degree of unaffordability at each degree, and we pay for this with excessive poverty, homelessness and outward migration.
Let’s repair the man-made unattainability of upper schooling earlier than our brilliant younger minds be a part of the a whole bunch of hundreds of Californians leaving for states the place alternative is definitely an possibility.
Lisa Ansell, Beverly Hills
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To the editor: One message out of your article is that attending neighborhood school is a disappointing necessity for many individuals. What it ought to be is that the tens of hundreds of deserving California college students on this state of affairs on no account have to surrender on their dream.
Group school is a really efficient bridge to UC. College students can switch well-prepared academically and having saved themselves and their households tens of hundreds of {dollars}.
It’s tragic that college students typically don’t perceive this and consequently make damaging monetary choices.
Scott Howell, Murrieta
