<p>kataomom:</p>
<p>the most egregious line is:
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Nearly one-third of the 271,000 freshmen surveyed are attending schools that were not their first choice. That's the highest percentage since 1988.
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since half of those one-third were not accepted at their first choice college. If they weren't accepted, finances matter not.</p>
<p>The UCLA Dept of Ed and most journalists just have a personal point of view that they need to get across, particularly since it just so happens that Congress is voting on changes to federal student aid and, in UCLA's case, The Governator has proposed increasing state tuition (oope, "fees") next year.</p>