<p>even though its not as bad as people thing, i am still against cutting school budget. The california school system is going down in quality and witht his, they wil just make it worse.</p>
<p>Hey AdamantineX, I know what you mean. My fiance is a 6th grade teacher at a California public school. I will say though...studies have shown (and I wish I could find it to post) that while spending is increased, test scores stayed flat. It's been proven that throwing more money at schools changes nothing. But of course, we're talking more about K-12 here...it's not like they do research and what not. </p>
<p>Anyway, I've faced something like this situation before. When I went up for my promotion to staff sergeant, promotion rates had been pretty high over previous years but in my year it dropped 20%...and we knew this prior to finding out if we got promoted or not. I still never had any doubt in my mind that I made it. And I'll tell you, it felt pretty good to be able to say you got promoted the year they cut the rates by 20%. To me, it will be the same thing when I get my acceptance letters. </p>
<p>Good luck to all! :)</p>
<p>I find the truth hard to swallow, but most of time is. With these budget cuts you'll also cause an excess amount of transfer students that will reapply for next year. Freshman's who don't get in will more than likely head toward CC's and thereby over follow CC's.<br>
This will only create a tsunami wave of applications for transfer in the years to come.</p>
<p>Most freshman applicants won't go the CC route, they almost always go with a safety school, etc; and transfers are the same way. Thus, I don't think a wave of applicants will result from the cuts. Also, it is important to remember that the UCs had nothing to do with the cut, the source lies in Sacramento, but that's another story all together.</p>
<p>i'm curious to see what the UC Davis rep has to say</p>
<p>Ha! what if it becomes so competitive that Cal and UCLA starts admitting only students with 3.8+ and amazing ECs. They might even become the next Ivys( i.e institutions with very high class exclusivity).</p>
<p>I was thinking the very same thing.</p>
<p>All these people talking about it only affecting "borderline applicants", what will they say when a borderline applicant is anyone below a 4.0? </p>
<p>On another note, riverside starts notifications next Saturday... anyone else excited? :D</p>
<p>^no, im not excited.</p>
<p>i think ucla and berkeley have already become super competitive and they are already next to Ivies. berkeley ranking is like 20 or something?</p>
<p>anyways, i hope that they will take in account ECs and personal statements more with the boarderline people.</p>
<p>I mean really how many applicant spots can they really cut?</p>
<p>Well ,due to the state's cutbacks, not to mention the fact that they have just built the brand new campus, It's only logical that they will bump kids who would have quallified at UCLA ,UCB last year. I believe this trend will continue in the future unfortunately.</p>
<p>At this time, or at least at last Fridays staff meeting, the UC system does not plan to turn away eligible applicants like the 2004 application cycle as mentioned above. It is only fair to mention that in July or August of 2004 funding was restored to offer admission to all eligible applicants for fall 2004 and I’m not sure if the stories above mentioned this. </p>
<p>How will these budget cuts affect students in fall 2008? Hopefully they won’t. As I’m writing this the UC campuses are meeting to discuss how the budget cuts will be handled. Keep your eyes on the news and most likely you will know the answer to this question at the same time I will.</p>
<p>Will it be more difficult to be admitted for fall 2008? Most likely it will be more difficult but, not primarily because of the budget cuts. It will be more difficult because of the increase in applications where as enrollment targets are not increasing (more competition).</p>
<p>Nice! Thanks UCD Admissions...your input is always appreciated!</p>
<p>+1, thx for the input UCD</p>
<p>Will definitely keep my ear to the street on this issue.</p>
<p>wow thank you so much UCD Admissions.</p>
<p>Wow, this year there is going to be real stiff competition this year at the UC system.
Here is some updated info on whats going on with the budget cuts and increase in applications.
University</a> of California - UC Newsroom |
UC to offer admission to all eligible undergraduates for 2008-09; state budget challenge deepens for university
and University</a> of California - UC Newsroom | Undergraduate applications for fall 2008 reach record level
and also here is a link containing tables and other info about the number of applications to specific campuses and also by gender, region, etc. There is not to much info for transfers but there is a little bit of info.
Fall</a> 2008 application tables
and just one more piece of info for last years students. This is really detailed and information about transfer GPA's is at the bottom.
<a href="https://osr2.berkeley.edu/Public/STUDENT.DATA/PUBLICATIONS/UG/ugf07.html%5B/url%5D">https://osr2.berkeley.edu/Public/STUDENT.DATA/PUBLICATIONS/UG/ugf07.html</a></p>
<p>will this affect people applying for fall 2009 as well?</p>
<p>"it is important to make clear now that we will not plan to expand enrollments again in 2009-10 unless our unfunded student enrollments from 2008-09 are provided for in that year's state budget."</p>
<p>Yea, 09 is getting the brunt of this.</p>
<p>so were not hurt by this budget cut right... in terms of admission?</p>
<p>I think Berkeley was planning on increasing its student body by 2.5% to handle the growing number of students applying to Cal (this was before the record number of applications) but because of budget cuts they might not expand. Which will somewhat affect the 2008-2009 admissions. I could be mistaken about this info but I believe they discussed this in the links in my previous post. So do take this info with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>if they do budget cuts, would that mean less chances on financial aid as well?</p>