<p>Freshman, that is. Surprising to see UCLA admit less freshman than Berkeley.</p>
<p>Popularity! **Team So Cal **</p>
<p>^ lol</p>
<p>ftw!</p>
<p>Thx for the link, lintij.</p>
<p>is that a good sign !!! or… ???</p>
<p>It’s not a sign unless you want it to signal to you. There are dozens of red flags that these stats tell me. California residents are losing more spots while out of state students are taking them. All UC’s are admitting less freshman in general. Competition is at it’s highest ever. </p>
<p>For UCLA: I just noticed they doubled the international freshman admit offers this year. They decreased the number of African American admit offers, and are slowing the rate of admit offers to Chicanos. Whites have held steady after a decrease in 2009, while Asians increased. More people refusing to omit. In contrast to the UC system, UCLA has admitted more freshman than last year.</p>
<p>Weren’t we reading an article a couple months ago saying freshman admits would go down but transfer admits would go up?</p>
<p>hahaha i know… i guess everything is so unpredicted huh…</p>
<p>Here is my honest opinion.</p>
<p>I think we need a happy balance of international students, but we need to give California and US citizens priority. I don’t care if they pay double, we need to fix it. Why? Because we need to grow California’s economy too, not just Asia’s. I know this is controversial, but the fact is a significant portion (not all) of these students never stay and work in California. </p>
<p>There are plenty of other universities out there that can accept these students. And I am a fan of brain drain towards the US, so I understand the importance of immigration. I also understand why they are accepting more. It is simple: they need cash bad. </p>
<p>Desperate times require desperate measures. Hopefully our state sees the importance of an education and our economy recovers. </p>
<p>We need to educate American students first.</p>
<p>*Si Se Puede! *</p>
<p>I would be surprised if the transfer numbers weren’t higher. They’ve said several times that transfer students aren’t going to be hit as hard as freshmen.</p>
<p>I also noticed that Berkeley admitted way less freshman overall, while UCLA freshman admit rate was steady. And if the overall freshman admit percentage is shrinking for UCLA, while raising for Berkeley, this would mean that UCLA is gaining significantly in overall applicants, while Berkeley is only slightly increasing.</p>
<p>Berkeley had a total of 38,632 freshman applicants and their admit rate was 24.5%.</p>
<p>UCLA had a total of 47,112 applicants and their admit rate was 21.0%.</p>
<p>UCLA’s rate is lower simply because they received more applications! I hope I don’t have to go into detail beyond this (it should be obvious why the rate is lower, and thus not surprising), but if someone asks I gladly will.</p>
<p>@thebigsh0w</p>
<p>I completely agree with you. The function of the UC system is to better California.</p>
<p>Following that function has many great consequences. For one, the incentive to fund the UC system becomes larger because the tax money in will result in research+educated students for Cali out.</p>
<p>Also, the international students that are accepted vastly represent the absolute TOP of their home-country’s economic system. The UC’s function is NOT to educate highly wealthy people who will not, in any way, stimulate California intellectually, economically, or politically.</p>
<p>Accepting more (wealthy) international students because they PAY MORE hurts the UC’s reputation and ability to function as intended.</p>
<p>I am not completely against international students. However, I think the international students who are accepted should not be from the financial top .01% of their country. That’s ridiculous. What incentive does someone have to do any good for either society in general or California in specific if they’re going to a UC just for prestige and to “better” their family’s wealthy status even greater than it already is? Accepting someone who is greatly underprivileged will give them a massive incentive to “at least” better society in general (if not give right back to Cali as the UC was politically intended.)</p>
<p>so basically you need a 4.0 GPA to get in anywhere half decent in the UCs…</p>
<p>man, I feel sorry for those HS students, they actually had to try while I basically just completely half assed **** and got into the mid tiered UCs with ease.</p>
<p>sandaboy you just repeated what I said in the post right before yours.</p>