<p>Since the state's economy is swimming like a brick, are you (as UCLA students) worried about the school's status? Are you seeing (or expecting to see) the evidence of reduced funding? I imagine UCLA would be just about the last school they would want to cut short, but I am genuinely worried about its future in this economy. Any specific examples (or better yet, sources) about this would make me so gosh darn happy.</p>
<p>I think it’ll be seen more this coming year since the cuts and letter from the Chancellor and stuff have been happening somewhat recently. There’s obviously the raise in tuition, PLEDGE, etc.</p>
<p>[Latest</a> Budget Update — UCLA Chancellor Gene Block](<a href=“http://chancellor.ucla.edu/updates/latest-budget-update]Latest”>Latest Budget Update 2009 - UCLA Chancellor)</p>
<p>the economy has affected everyone in some way. i dont know how much it will affect an institution as large as UCLA, but if it does id hope theyd lower the oos tuition for nonfafsa people, its killinng me.</p>
<p>I found these lines especially interesting:</p>
<p>“We also will consider increasing the proportion of non-resident students. UCLA currently enrolls a greater proportion of state residents than our peer public institutions. There are strong intellectual arguments for geographical diversity; non-resident students can enrich the educational experience for all. A moderate increase in the proportion of non-residents would generate millions of dollars in new revenue to protect instructional programs for all UCLA students.”</p>
<p>There’s extra hope for the OOSers! It certainly does seem to be a fairly easy way to increase revenue.</p>
<p>P.S. California state lawmakers are ridiculous.>:(</p>
<p>wowww i just dont get why the tuition has to be soo high, its pretty much the same as going to harvard with no fafsa. i really hope they LOWER the tuition for oos, and accept more oos’s. im not even oos i live in ca, but i still pay oos(long story), but geographical diversity isnt a bad thing people.</p>
<p>Lower tuition for OOS? Come on, I pay taxes in state, and so do my parents. It’s the same way everywhere, you gotta contribute.</p>
<p>this reminds me of fall quarter, in my physics 1c class professor richards told us before halloween that if we don’t have a costume, dress as the economy, that’ll scare everyone :D</p>
<p>deuces i pay in state taxes too, my father has for 3 years and because of my visa status im paying oos, so obviously oos tuition isnt only based on TAXES. i wanna tell my dad to screww taxes, because hes paying taxes going to an education im paying extra for, but im not gonna get more into that because then i go crazy lol. BUT i think that what makes schools like Harvard and Columbia, and Darthmouth so strong academically is that they have such a wide array of students, and diversity brings knowledge, thats the truth.</p>
<p>PS, everywhere doesnt have as much crazy oos tuition that the uc’s have, 25 grand for just tuition, and since they know most of them dont live in california, they have to do the housing, so theyre definitely pushing away oos’s</p>
<p>binta92, i think you are just a particular case and definitely isn’t in the same situation as most of the OOS students, most of their parents don’t live in CA so they have to pay extra to make up for taxes and such which makes sense, as for the comprisons to the ivys, they are privately funded and charge everyone the same, they are so strong academically because they have history, good reputation which attract good faculty and people are willing to go there at high costs as well as for their prestige, its not really diversity that brings knowledge but simply the fact that top tier students will choose to go there for the prestige and they can pick the best to accept… you simply cannot compare state schools to the ivys</p>
<p>as for the higher tuition than other state’s schools, i would guess it is because of our location, and reputation, people are definitely going to come to UCLA when it is compared to say Utah State (just example, nothing against that school) especially if they are at similar price range for education, so some schools lower tuition to attract students</p>
<p>ps, i think i know a friend thats in the similar situation as you, i believe he took some kind of proof to murphy to validate his in-state status (i believe he gets charged out of state and then they clear it and change it to in-state)</p>