<p>I was told by a sports recruiter that Berkeley received over 86000 applications for this year. That's insane. They were expecting about 55000. Don't know how they will be able to read this many. Crazy.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that, if we're only looking at undergraduate apps.</p>
<p>No its true. The applications are done by numbers and the recruiting coordinator needs to keep track of the application number for each recruit. The numbers reached over 86k. She also knows the readers as well and also does the interviewing for the Alumni Scholarships. She's been working in and around Cal for over 20 years. She knows what is going on, so I'm sure it's true.</p>
<p>blast it....</p>
<p>Good. But what Cal needs to improve more is its enrollment yield though. Cal needs to admit less and make sure that many, or majority of the offers they give are accepted by the applicants.</p>
<p>i googled berkeley undergrad application record and it seems like they get many more each year =[</p>
<p>dang i feel bad for the class of 09...</p>
<p>I'll have to read this to believe it but it may be true if your including transfer applications. 86000 UG would be insane!.......but crazier things have happened.</p>
<p>i am not getting into cal no more.</p>
<p>Bad economy = people begin to realize education is a good thing = more people apply for college = more people end up getting in = classes get fuller = people take five years instead of four = people come out in more debt than usually = ...</p>
<p>replace all =s with right pointing arrows.</p>
<p>^ You mean like this, "=>" ;)</p>
<p>The 86,000 stat does sound reasonable, as bad as it may seem...
With the crappy economy, who want's to pay to go to an expensive OOS school?
California residents are more likely to just apply to the number one public school in the nation, which also conveniently offers cheap tuition.</p>
<p>Now us OOS-ers have an advantage, because no one in their right mind (besides us) would pay the KILLER 45+k a year to attend Berkeley.
Why pay so much, when you could just go local?</p>
<p>And since Berkeley maintains a 10% non-california-resident makeup, with the dwindling out of state applicants, there's less people vying for one of those 10% spots.</p>
<p>^I think the state legislature and the ad comms would have no problem reducing the OoS seats if the IS applications sky rocket.</p>
<p>Going to college/grad school/prof. school is a good way to avoid a ****ty economy because you come out far more marketable.</p>
<p>Hopefully by c. 2020 after I finish graduate school plus Post Doc. the economy could be decent.</p>
<p>I read somewhere, but I just couldn't find the site right now, that the top guys of UC Berkeley are bent on increasing the number of OOS and International Students at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>I read somewhere, but I just couldn't find the site right now, that the top guys of UC Berkeley are bent on increasing the number of OOS and International Students at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>I read somewhere, but I just couldn't find the site right now, that the top guys of UC Berkeley are bent on increasing the number of OOS and International Students at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>^^ did you read it here? UC</a> Hopes To Expand Non-State Admission - The Daily Californian</p>
<p>holy crap i wont get in then</p>
<p>Holy criminy ...</p>
<p>umm this doesn't mean that applications would neccesarily get more competitive. How many compettive applicants in CA previously wouldn't apply to Berkeley but now want to because of the economy?</p>