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    Did the UC Admissions make the right decision to drop the SAT Requirement? Should other top public universities like UMichigan, UVA, UNC, & GT follow?

    Turning away students with a 4.0 and near perfect SAT in favor of educating foreign students who don’t even stay in the US after graduation doesn’t seem like a good investment for a public university. If they were having problems filling seats I could understand the logic. Admitting a student...
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    Did the UC Admissions make the right decision to drop the SAT Requirement? Should other top public universities like UMichigan, UVA, UNC, & GT follow?

    Is it really ROI if international students can’t even get a work visa after they graduate? Tax payers are getting ripped off. It looks like the 10% Asian American decline in enrollment was because they admitted ten percent more students from Asia. UCI is still 50% Asian, but ten percent of them...
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    Did the UC Admissions make the right decision to drop the SAT Requirement? Should other top public universities like UMichigan, UVA, UNC, & GT follow?

    In 2019 there were more international undergraduate students than white Americans? https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/fall-enrollment-glance
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    Why Do the Chinese Love Irvine?

    Were the parents recent immigrants or were they born here?
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    Disney Gift Card For $8.39 For Sale - I'll Never Go Back - Who Wants It?

    "Any gift card with a face value or balance of less than $10 must be redeemable for cash upon request,” Sometimes unused gift cards show up in unclaimed property from the state
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    Newer Irvine listings with crazy WTF asking prices from equity sellers

    How much do you think they spent building that? How much does it cost to build a house half that size?
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    Buying as investment

    I’d be more concerned with the radical right taking over. DeSantis and Abbott are the ones talking about not letting Chinese nationals buy property.
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    Charts show University of California admissions rates for every public high school in state

    Race and ethnicity of UC applicants from California high schools Share of applicants of each race or ethnicity group who were admitted and share of admits who enrolled for the 2022 fall semester. (not broken down by gpa/test scores)...
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    Charts show University of California admissions rates for every public high school in state

    4.28 GPA to get into UCI. What’s the world coming to https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/uc-admissions-acceptance-rates/
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    How low can we go? 30 yr fixed at 3.75% with no fees...

    interesting to see the amount of speculation around the country. See how many all-cash buyers snagged houses in your neighborhood
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    Charts show University of California admissions rates for every public high school in state

    Might need to start a Talk Garden Grove / Fountain Valley forum https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/uc-school-admissions/
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    Apple Products for Fall 2021: iPhone 13, Apple watch 7, etc...

    I'm disappointed my ipad mini2 is basically useless even though it's still in perfect condition. can't even use Spotify on it anymore.
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