Denise Howell 
Big game day/night in California: Cal/Stanford and UCLA/USC. My generation feels connected to these schools, lots of us attended them. My son’s generation, not at all. These schools are foreign entities to CA teenagers, unobtainable in admissions. No one they know goes there, and they have zero emotional investment in the outcome of these games. #CollegeAdmissons #BigGame #CaliforniaHigherEducatuon #AlumniDonations #Sad
Nov 20, 2022 at 4:06amWeb
Show threadGabe Wachob 🐵🐴👨‍💻👨‍🎤🐮Nov 20, 2022

@denise So TRUE!

Also, its clear that my kids aren't considering living in California after college (due in part to not going to school in-state), despite being 2nd/3rd+ generation natives. Too expensive, quality of life issues. Hard to be a young person starting out.

TBH, its also been hard being a parent.

Show threadDenise Howell Nov 20, 2022
@gwachob My casual polling reveals their goal is to leave the US entirely. Of course they don’t grasp what that means, and likely are in for rude awakenings if they follow through. But it’s notable: GenX didn’t feel that way and didn’t leave.
Show threadroyalNov 20, 2022
@denise What made the difference? Cost? Selectivity?
Show threadDenise Howell Nov 20, 2022
@royal The latter.
Show threadroyalNov 20, 2022
@denise I would love to know more about that.
Show threadDenise Howell Nov 20, 2022

@royal Suggested reading:

Who Gets In and Why, by Jeffrey Selingo.

Valedictorians at the Gate, by Becky Munsterer Sabky.

Re the UCs, there’s quite a rathole to go down of investigative journalism concerning admissions in recent years (and on a related topic, the campus housing shortage).

The pandemic aggravated things as students deferred.

The upshot: hundreds of thousands of applications for a few thousand spots in each class.

Show threadSmittyHalibutNov 20, 2022
@denise all that, but also #GoBears :-)
Show threadDenise Howell Nov 20, 2022
@smitty They pulled it out! 🎉 But #UCLA is struggling…good game tho!