I'm not sure what aspect you mean, specifically, but I can agree with at least one. I got my CSE degree from Davis, and I found a significant portion of my clas

I'm not sure what aspect you mean, specifically, but I can agree with at least one. I got my CSE degree from Davis, and I found a significant portion of my classmates (read: half) to be bright but otherwise uninterested in CS, there simply because they hoped to get a well paying job or their parents pushed them to be engineers. I don't know if this is a problem particular to this stratosphere in higher education, geographic location (near the bay area), or if it's simply more common than I think. (The other half of students were really great, don't get me wrong. I can't speak highly enough of the faculty either.)