<p>"The fact is, the pool of in-state applicants is of lower quality than the pool of out-of-state applicants"</p>
<p>Wow ... and therefore by induction, the pool of out-of-country
applicants are 'higher quality' than US resident applicants!
Perhaps they spend more time hitting the books?
Or their brains are better developed due to learning by osmosis
in early childhhood? Not sure where you're going with this!</p>
<p>For law and medicine in CA, you have a better shot if you did
5 years of Spanish. Understandable, given the demographics.</p>