UC Admissions numbers divided by race:
http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2014/fall-2014-admissions-table3.pdf
Compared to 2013:
Berkeley admitted 828 fewer students in 2014
UCLA admitted 411 fewer students in 2014
Irvine admitted 2098 fewer students in 2014
UCSD admitted 811 fewer students in 2014
Am I reading this correctly?
What happened to these seats? is this because of the budget?
Note that these are CALIFORNIA Admission counts (read the top of the page).
Maybe the universities provided these seats to more out of state or international students.
determined2300: Yes I thought about that but I am not sure if I can buy UCI enrolling 2000 or UCSD enrolling 800 more foreign students.
It is actually possible, especially because the UCs are HUGE universities!
UCI (for instance) has a very high acceptance rate. Also, the difference between in-state and OOS tuition fee is also a lot. The college gets lots of money from Intl students than from in-state.
Also, these are ‘admitted’ rates, not ‘enrolled’. This means that if the university accepts 800 more students, only around 200 will actually attend (maybe even lesser).
If the university’s yield rate is increasing, they need to admit fewer students so that they do not overfill the class. The number of seats might not have changed at all – but if you expect that 30% of the students you admit will attend, and the actual percentage is 33%, you may have very overcrowded dorms, classes,…
I’d expect that Riverside, for example, has to admit proportionately a lot more students to fill the freshman class than does UCLA, Berkeley, or UCSD.
Yeah, my thought was also that the yield must be improving.
arabrab,gmtplus7: Yup…that must be it. Thanks
Nope, you did not read this correctly as you got lost in the granularity of the document. The salient fact (and most often overlooked) is found in the LAST table. It is the Universitywide (unduplicated counts) that as the name says sanitizes the statistics by cleaning out the multiples applications which have become so common.
In the end, the UC admitted 1031 MORE Cal residents to the schools of its system with about 1000 more Latinos and 500 more Asians at the expense of Whites. Now, the part that will NOT please many is the apparent shuffling of applicants to “a new campus” Fewer Asians at Berkeley but more at Santa Cruz. Fewer Whites at UCSB and UCSD And the list goes on!
As far as the yield goes, the UC admitted 1000 more OOS and 2000 more Internationals. All in all, close to 90,000 students were admitted at one of the UC schools.
The admission rate dipped to a low of 58 percent. It is really getting tougher!