> Leave it to 80's Californian affirmative action to "fix" schools with culture-shock, not fitting-in, racism, violence, and gang warfare. There's not a lot of

> Leave it to 80's Californian affirmative action to "fix" schools with culture-shock, not fitting-in, racism, violence, and gang warfare. There's not a lot of easy solutions to undoing decades of segregation. > didn't even bother applying to Ivys or Pac12s where "everyone else" was going because those places didn't interest me. Based on your username and talking about the 80s I'm going to guess you were born in 1978, i.e. are roughly the same age as me. I find it interesting you talk about "Pac12" (and it's not just a typo, you do it a lot) considering that until 2011 it was the "Pac10". For those not familiar with US college sports, the Pac10 at the time doggodaddo78 and I would have been applying to college was, in vague north-to-south order, University of Washington, Washington State University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, University of Southern California, University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. The Pac12 retains those same teams, but adds University of Colorado and University of Utah. There's definitely some world-class schools in there, but with respect to all the Cougs I've ever known, I would not put, say, Washington State among the greats. (Disclaimer: I was accepted to two of those Pac10 schools but could not afford to go to either, so went instead to a smaller state school).