<p>here is another reason to add more UC’s and to find some safeties. Because of Calif’s budget cuts to the UC"s, Berkeley will be accepting fewer freshman next year AND will increase the % of full pay OOS students from12-23%!That means a LOT fewer openings for Calif kids. </p>
<p>"To save money, Berkeley plans to reduce the size of next fall’s freshman class. The university intends to enroll about 15 percent fewer Californians, while at the same time nearly doubling its number of out-of-state and international students, who will generate millions of dollars in new revenue from higher, nonresident tuition.</p>
<p>The intended growth in nonresident students at Berkeley, from about 12 percent to 23 percent of the student body"</p>
<p>[As</a> Berkeley Enrolls More Out-of-State Students, Racial Diversity May Suffer - Admissions & Student Aid - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/As-Berkeley-Enrolls-More/49049/]As”>http://chronicle.com/article/As-Berkeley-Enrolls-More/49049/)</p>
<p>It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that UCLA will end up doing the same thing.</p>
<p>This Washington Post article into tomorrow’s paper lists other top ranked colleges that are under financial pressure to move from “need blind” admissions to “need aware” admissions. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803584.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803584.html</a></p>