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One major mistake people often overlook is, just because a school is well-known, it does not mean it is the best education to pay for. In order to pursue my career in a medical field, I need to attend a college that best supplies their students with prime education, along with a college that has some sort of reputation in the country. Out of my top three choices, UCI had the lowest ranking, lowest tuition, and highest acceptance rate. Although UCI isn’t such a notorious school in the nation, it offers an affordable tuition along with an achievable acceptance rate and requirements that I can attain. Before applying for any college, an essential trait to look for when doing so, is tuition. Receiving a scholarship to an acceptable college is hard. Therefore, you must admit to a college with an affordable tuition. “Residents of California pay an annual total price of $32, 930 to attend the University of California Irvine …show more content…

The lower the percentage is, the more difficult it is to be accepted into that college due to its competitiveness. On average, the acceptance rate of UCI is 40.7%, considering it is a UC. “Last year, 31,630 out of 77,816 applicants were admitted making UCI a more competitive school to get into with a good chance of acceptance for qualifying applicants” (CollegeSimply). UCI clearly has a higher acceptance rate, making it easier to get into this college rather than UCLA and UCB. The acceptance rate at the University of California, Los Angeles is roughly about 18%, making UCLA more ambitious to be welcomed into (“UCLA Acceptance Rates”). UCB does have a lower acceptance rate, but that still makes UCLA a highly competitive school to attend. The acceptance rate at the University of California, Berkeley is an average of about 17.5% (“UCB Acceptance Rates”). Having such a low acceptance rate is unquestionably a disadvantage considering it is now even harder to get

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