<p>Ok, I justed wanted to find out, which colleges had the lowest matriculation rates. Here is the lowest one I have found.</p>
<p>UC Merced 669 enrolled / 13,519 accepted = 4.9% matriculation rate</p>
<p>Please top this if you can. Thank you.</p>
<p>that’s gross.</p>
<p>I believe you’ll be attending Stanford? Well, Stanford already arrogantly pointed that out.</p>
<p>[UC</a> Merced suffers from 3.7 percent yield rate - The Stanford Daily Online](<a href=“http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/8/10/ucMercedSuffersFrom37PercentYieldRate]UC”>http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/8/10/ucMercedSuffersFrom37PercentYieldRate)</p>
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<p>Merced is just depressing…</p>
<p>Imo, UC would have had much more success if they opened a UC in Fullerton (I’m pretty sure they were brainstorming that idea before they decided on Merced).</p>
<p>Why are you trying to gauge its success when it’s barely more than 2 years old? Hell, for all we know, it could be the next UCLA in 50 or so years. (And don’t think that’s so ludicrous. UCLA started out as a normal school–about on par with a CSU–and finally became a UC in 1919, not anywhere near Berkeley in quality; now it’s a competitive rival.)</p>
<p>They should have taken a community college or even a cal state, and turned it into a UC.</p>
<p>I think a UC in Pasadena would have been nice.</p>
<p>What is the point of that article? To compare Stanford to UC Merced? WHY?! </p>
<p>Must’ve been a slow news day.</p>
<p>Haha it’s good to see that Merced and Stanford have established the beginnings of a GREAT relationship…</p>
<p>I’m not gauging it’s success. I said “Merced is depressing” (my opinion, having been to the town/campus).</p>
<p>I also started my second statement with the phrase “in my opinion”.</p>
<p>I think changing CSU Fullerton to a full fledged UC would be a great idea, or even converting Cal Poly Pomona.</p>
<p>Not to pick a fight, but CSU Fullerton is a commuter school. Wouldn’t be a good choice for changing to a UC.</p>
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<li> I never brought up, or even compared Stanford in my OP. I had never even read that article until today.</li>
<li> I soley wanted to know if any college/university in America had a lower matriculation rate.</li>
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<p>Do you even have a life anyways? Look at how many posts you have. lol. Go outside and find a real EC. Having 12,000 posts by senior year is not an accomplishment. It won’t help you get into Berkeley. lol.</p>
<p>“Haha it’s good to see that Merced and Stanford have established the beginnings of a GREAT relationship…”</p>
<p>-sarcasm I bet</p>
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<p>The “Merced” was ambiguous–I had thought you meant the school. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
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<p>What about UCI? We should probably turn it into a CSU, then… =p</p>
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<p>Why even bother pointing it out? It’s clear your post was ridiculing the school. “Please top this if you can. Thank you.” Please don’t try to undermine my intelligence by saying this is a sincere statement.</p>
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<p>What kind of a tactic is this? You’re a Stanford admit and you’re making attacks like that? Tisk, tisk… [For what it’s worth, I’ve been accepted to Stanford (w/likely letter) and Berkeley. So that point is moot.]</p>
<p>Well, looking at the bright side it can only go up…</p>
<p>UC Blythe, whenever it is built, will have the lowest matriculation rate :)</p>
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<p>Go to Berkeley. Since Stanford is so ARROGANT, and there are people like ME there. Cry me a river while you are at it.</p>
<p>And are you defending UC Merced? Have you ever even been to that city? yeah. Everyone says its depressing, because it is.</p>
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<p>… (maturity, please).</p>
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<p>Er, I’m defending it in the face of ridicule on your part, which is pretty off the mark.</p>
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<p>city =/= university</p>
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<p>yeah. I don’t think so. (Nor do I think you can speak for everyone.)</p>
<p>wait…kyledavid, i thought you were a berkeley student or alum, judging from your fanatic loyalty to berkeley around here. care to share wht leads you to like berkeley so much? also, are you going to berkeley? if u end up at stanford, what an irony that will be, lol…(i thought stanford and berkeley were rivals?)</p>
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<p>I’ve never said or implied that in any thread. People assume that. :p</p>
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<p>I don’t have a ‘fanatic loyalty’ to Berkeley. Search my posts–I support Chicago, Stanford, Northwestern, etc. when I see fit. More often, schools like Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, etc. are the ones I seem to support, as there’s this widespread elitism on CC that causes many to turn up his/her nose at public schools (and associated stupid assumptions about public schools). Many seem especially reluctant to believe that–gasp–some publics may be as good as top-20 privates! (Oh, what is this world coming to?)</p>
<p>It’s that same elitism, incidentally, that causes people to ridicule budding state schools simply for fun.</p>
<p>@Kyledavid80, if you weren’t such a ■■■■■ we might be able to have a good discussion over this, but your post count suggests otherwise. I could continue to argue this, but it would get pointless. This is the INTERNET, after all.</p>
<p>Yes, UC Merced is a new university, and yes its matriculation rate SHOULD go up in the FUTURE. But, as of NOW it stands at 5% as one of the lowest in the nation. FACT.</p>