<p>what makes its hard?? other than the whole uc gpa thing</p>
<p>What makes it hard is that their focus isn't really on serving students from out of state (oos). From what I understand, they limit the number of oos students to about 10%. Though among those 10%, the admission rate is the same as the overall rate. So what makes it hard is really the limited number of admits that can be accepted.</p>
<p>Tax payers supporting these institutions want in state kids taken care of...of course not all are because there are so many high school graduates here and only so many UC's. Even with UCMerced opening this year there will continue to be overcrowding to the point that some students can't get freshman level classes in their majors their first quarter. My D was closed out of the first prerequisite for two course threads both in her major. If she doesn't get them next quarter she will either have to switch majors, take summer courses or plan on extending college by a year.</p>