Fewer Californians got into UC, while offers to foreign students rose

LA Times ^ | July 2nd, 2015 | By Larry Gordon

[Mariner]

With the number of UC applicants at a new high, California residents faced tougher odds of gaining acceptance into next fall's freshman classes. A record number of students from other countries and states, meanwhile, received offers of admission.

About 60% of the 103,117 California applicants were offered a spot on at least one of UC's nine undergraduate campuses, according to university figures released Thursday. That appears to be a record low acceptance rate, down from about 63% of the 99,955 applicants last year, and about 79% in 1999, the oldest available systemwide figures.

However, Stephen Handel, UC associate vice president for undergraduate admissions, said that interest is so strong in the public university system that he expects the ranks of California freshmen will remain about the same as in this past school year, even though the 61,834 Californians accepted to UC were about 1,000 fewer than last year. Their ethnic composition continues to shift from whites to more Asians and Latinos.

[Menehune56]

In a sane country this criminal alien would have been taken into custody and deported the same day.

[dila813]

I don’t see any problem here, California has been voting for Democrats for so long while expecting better results. They haven’t planned for energy and water needs for the state.

Obviously, the population of the state is mentally inferior to the foreign students.

So why wouldn’t one expect these results as normal?

[boycott]

White: 29%?

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Whites make up 39% of the population in California and 62% in the USA. My guess is that UC-Berkeley didn’t get the “white privilege” memo.

[samadams2000]

A system built for the people of California. Now only 60% of new entrants are from the state, the rest out of state and international. CURRUPT.

[SkyDancer]

Fewer Californians got into UC, while offers to foreign illegal-American students rose

There, fixed it.

[Mariner]

"Obviously, the population of the state is mentally inferior to the foreign students."

Well, maybe not all of us, but collectively we have dropped 30 IQ POINTS IN THE LAST 50 YEARS.

Which is a big problem if you're counting on those folks to pay your pension, or not take everything you have as the case may be.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do to make dumb people smart.

You just can't fix stupid.

[Mariner]

"As a taxpayer, these schools should lose federal funding if they accept a foreign student and turn down an American."

Well duh.

If they cannot operate at subsidized levels (40-50% at last check) and provide CA students with an education, see how they do without the 50% subsidy.

Sink or swim.

[Nero Germanicus]

Many more black and Latino students than white or Asian students transfer in to the University of California as Juniors rather than applying as freshman in order to save money.
It costs $1,100 a year to attend a California community college (there are 112 of them statewide) and live at home versus $12,000 a year at the University of California system.
At the University of California, San Diego, black transfer students are up by 36% for this Fall and Latino transfers are up by 12%.
Among incoming Freshmen at UC San Diego, blacks are up 19% and Latinos are down 4% from last year.
California banned affirmative action in 1996.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

Congratulations on your Daughter’s scholarship to UA. It is really a very good Academic institution. Unfortunately, some uninformed people think that it is just a “football factory”, when it is so much more.

Most of the students at Alabama are from out-of-state, mostly because the University has become aggressive in recruiting students from outside Alabama. You are correct, there are a lot of students from California attending Alabama.

Best of luck to your Daughter and congratulations on her wise decision to attend UA:) Tuscaloosa is a great town, the campus is beautiful and she will receive a quality education. Thanks for your post.