The admissions rate for in-state residents to the University of California decreased by about 3.6 percent for the incoming freshman class, according to data released by the UC Office of the President Tuesday.
This drop in California resident freshman admissions is a continuation of a trend that has been in effect for at least the last 3 years, UC admissions data shows. Due to the record number of applicants to the UC this year, the admissions rate for out-of-state and international admits also dropped almost 7 percent and 3 percent respectively. This is a reversal from recent years in which there was a steady increase in the admissions rates of nonresident students.
However, the UC also had a record number of freshman applicants this year and admitted a record number of freshman students to the system. This year, 80,289 freshmen were admitted, compared with 72,432 last year. In addition, the university saw around 126,300 freshman applicants this year, as compared with about 106,100 last year.
UC Berkeley was the only UC campus to not increase offers of admission to out-of-state and international students, with each rate falling around 12 percent.
For the past two years, the campus has aimed to bring the total nonresident student population to about 20 percent of total students. If enrollment exceeded that percentage, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said the campus would re-evaluate its admissions procedures to maintain that equilibrium. For fall 2011, close to 30 percent of the incoming freshman class was composed of nonresident students.
Systemwide, the UC admitted more out-of-state and international students than last year. In total, 18,846 nonresident students were admitted to the UC — an increase of about 5 percent proportional to the number of students admitted.
The total admission rate for UC Berkeley also fell from 25.5 percent last year to 21.1 percent this year. The campus experienced a record number of freshman applicants this year but admitted about 13,000 students, similar to last year and the year before.
“We have the capacity to educate many more students at our campuses,” said Kate Jeffery, interim director of undergraduate admissions for the UC in a statement. “What we don’t have is the funding to admit more California students.”
Amruta Trivedi is the lead academics and administration reporter.
Correction(s):
“A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the admission rate for California residents to the UC fell by 1 percent. In fact, the admission rate for resident applicants to UC Berkeley fell by 1 percent. The admission rate for the UC increased by 3.6 percent.”
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Your tax dollars subsidizing foreign students.
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The chancellor talks about keeping the UC public, but the numbers don’t lie. The admissions department is inching up the percent of non residents and bringing us closer to being a private school.
The shocking decrease in the number of white California freshman admits at Berkeley (8.1% decrease since 2011; 11.5% decrease since 2010) and UCLA(27.3% decrease since 2011) should be a grave concern to the University. The disconnect of UC from the lives of the majority of voting California families and the feeling that UC’s comprehensive review admissions scheme is grossly unfair to white applicants is why there is a limited political uproar to cuts in UC funding.
The massive advantage in chances for admission given to applicants attending low API schools continues; low income Asians being the prime beneficiary of this advantage. The lack of competition at a low API school is already reflected in a highly inflated GPA. Then, due to the low API, only marginal SAT scores are required to be awarded a 1 or 2 by the two readers, which assures admission to L&S and all but the most competitive COE majors. As long as there is not more than a +1 difference in the readers scores, their unexplained and undocumented scores stand and the applicant is never made aware of the scores or the reasoning or lack of reasoning behind the scores – zero transparency and zero accountability.
Class of 2012: Whites, 28.6%; Asians, 45.1%; Chicano/Latino, 17.8% ; African American, 3.5%
Class of 2011: Whites, 31.3%; Asians, 44.0%; Chicano/Latino, 16.4% ; African American, 3.6%
Class of 2011: Whites, 32.0%; Asians, 41.3%; Chicano/Latino, 14.8% ; African American, 3.7%
http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table3.pdf
Like it or not, the face of California and America is changing and it won’t be too long before minorities are the new majority. Deal with it, racist pig.
Do you hate white people???
You plucking morron!
Race isn’t the reason people are not interested in UC funding. Most voters don’t have an interest in funding public colleges because they don’t have kids thinking about college this year.
Admissions from low API schools are also not taking admissions from whites. The UC is not admitting lots of students from low API schools. The UC knows the quality of the students and the schools and adjust their admissions. That is why you still have large freshman classes coming from the strong private schools or Lowell in San Francisco.
Finally, the drop in white students could just be a continuation of the more financially secure in sending their children to private schools. Many middle income and above families don’t trust public education. So they don’t want their children even applying to UC schools. Can you blame them, when the public universities are cutting classes while the private schools are not changing.
It is not a grave concern. Read the study by Princeton? professors – Admitted Asian students have higher GPAs and SATs than Whites. If it was truly a fair system, there would be even more admitted Asian students. Don’t fault Asians for working harder.
Maybe at Princeton where Asians are 15% of the student body and whites are 51% and the rest of the ivy league which has similar proportionality,
http://collegeprowler.com/princeton-university/diversity/
but not at Berkeley where Asians from low API schools are given a massive advantage in admissions and then have their entire education paid by means of blue and gold and other university grants which are not available to lower middle class whites from API 6-8 level schools, who not only are discriminated against in admissions but then have no access to grant type funding.
A major reason for the drop in white Admits at Berkeley is that whites simply are no longer applying to UC. If a university is noted for discriminating against whites in admissions for the past quarter of a century and has now increased the cost to the point of being unaffordable to the middle income high achieving students it is primarily set up to serve, then there is no point in applying.
UC needs to stop all this social engineering nonsense. The Sat scores should not be adjusted to give a massive advantage to applicants from low API schools. Common sense dictates that for students from such schools, the SAT should be given far greater weight than a GPA inflated due to lack of competition. UC admissions are the complete reverse of common sense. This is exactly the situation where a standardized test has its greatest value.
UC does not need a Middle Class Tuition plan or a Blue and Gold Plan. This fails to recognize that there are students who will not qualify for either and whose parents will not provide any funding. UC needs to get back to the original purpose of a public university and start providing a low cost education for all, where a student can work his way through school if the parents are not providing funding.
UC also needs to stop lying about the cuts in funding from the state. The main reason there have been cuts in funding is because of essentially creative accounting. Much of the per student funding is now not classified as UC funding. All the Cal Grants that pay the full tuition for any UC student whose parents are at Blue and Gold level used to be distributed to UC to finance the education of all UC students. When this funding was directly to UC instead of to Cal Grant to be distributed to students to pay UC tuition, it was counted as state per student funding of UC. If all of the Cal Grants were counted as UC funding, UC support from the state hasn’t fallen as advertised.
This is just more UC social engineering. UC administrators believe that unless the college education of low income students is fully paid they will not go to college; but, middle income students, including lower middle income, are more amenable to taking out loans so it is ok to greatly increase their tuition and have them leave UC with a large debt load. Well, the UC social engineers were wrong. Lower middle income white students no longer are a relevant population at UC. The Cal Grant money needs to be channeled back to UC as per student funding and made available to decrease UC tuition for everyone not allocated to fully pay the tuition for the select groups that UC social engineers deem more worthy of a higher education.
There are approximatley three times the number of UC eligible white students as there are Asian, and twice the number of UC eligible whites as Chicano/Latino yet for Fall 2012, UC received 4,000 fewer applications from white applicants than from Asian applicants and 2,000 fewer from white applicants than from Chicano/Latino. Why isn’t UC Outreach concerned that lower middle income whites are not applying to UC?
Start charging more.
HA you do realize that college is already usuriously expensive as it, a reason why MANY do not go in the first place