In the Fall 2010 issue of California, fourth-generation Cal grad Tara Duggan ’94 wonders whether there will be a fifth. “Now that Berkeley is about as selective, and expensive as elite private schools,” she asks, “what are the chances for a family like mine?” Read “Making the Cut.”
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