<p>About California budget cuts…</p>
<p>source: Bay Area News Group, 4/19/11:
Out-of-state pupils push UC to milestone - as funding cuts loom, university system welcomes more nonresident freshmen, paying pricier tuition:</p>
<p>“With state budget cuts threatening to limit enrollment, campuses have turned to out-of-state students to help pay the bills…starting this fall, nonresident undergraduates will pay more than $34,000 per year, compared with resident tuition of $11,124…at UC-Berkeley, more than 31 percent were from out of state (of this year’s admitted freshmen)…the university placed thousands of students on wait lists for admission to the campus of their choice. More than 16,500 were placed on the list…UC continued its recent practice of admitting applicants not to the campus of their choice, redirecting them instead to UC Merced, which opened in 2005…more than 12,700 applicants were referred to Merced this year, based on past data, only about 5 percent of those students will accept the offer…the Merced referrals make the growing out-of-state enrollment less palatable, said Steve Boilard, higher-education chief for the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analysts’s Office. “It’s a little cynical to say we’re admitting all qualified California residents,” he said, " when we all know a portion of those students are being redirected to a campus very few of them will attend.”</p>