UCLA Affordability - please help

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@collegepanics

but there has to be middle class OOS students who have successfully graduated from UCLA with little problem…right?</p>

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@mom2collegekids

that’s like saying, “there has to be middle class kids who have successfully purchased new Mercedes Benz cars.”</p>

<p>there may be the rare person who has done that, but it would be unusual. btw…only a small number of OOS students attend UCLA as it is.</p>

<p>bio majors are often lowly paid. You cant depend on paying back a bunch of loans.

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<p>There you go again, trying to spread misinformation about UCLA again. Wrt the bold, there were 16% of the incoming class of 2013 who were from oos.</p>

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@beyphy

Yeah it’s an unfortunate truth that the only reason UCLA admitted you is to have you pay full tuition. It isn’t worth it and is certainly something most Californians would NOT pay. UCLA’s a great school, but it simply isn’t worth that kind of money.

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<p>How are you doing beyphy?..</p>

<p>I don’t think UCLA admitted the OP just because he/she is oos and a full-payer, because this seemingly implies that he/she, to me at least, doesn’t have the qualifications to attend UCLA (and I know that’s not what you meant). Unversities like ASU and other state u’s have been admitting lesser q’ed oos students because they can pay full price and because they have lesser amounts of options.</p>

<p>But I would agree that OP shouldn’t consider UCLA because I like to see two things for oos students to attend the U:</p>

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<li>An express desire to attend college in CA, particularly in SoCal and UCLA.</li>
<li>An explicit ability to be able to pay full-sticker price, which would be manifest in financial docs.</li>
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<p>OP, I see 1, but I don’t see 2. I particularly like your statement taht you want to settle in CA, but the only way I can see this happening is if you were to gain independence from your parents to work in CA and to gain residency yourself. </p>