UC Berkeley may be forced to admit 5100 fewer students

I’m making some assumptions from the the email (attached)
sent from the Chancellor to current students. The main takeaway is the that UCB is going to try to enroll 8000+ Freshmen for the 2022-23 school year, one way or another.

  1. Admission decisions are complete. “…[the ruling] is devastating news for the students who have worked so hard for and have earned an offer of a seat in our fall 2022 class.”

2)UCB is expecting a lot of students to be online. In 2020, 6000+ kids did a year online, including 1400 OOS/Int’l students. I think UCB expects to get more than 1400 non-residents to do online classes for at least a semester. “[we will be] increasing online enrollment…”

3)They will push the fill up the on-campusfreshmen student body with CA residents, and any additional CA residents that they cant offer on campus education to, they will offer Jan 2023 admission to.

#3 is tricky because it assumes attrition and a satisfying result to the UC v Berkeley Neighborhoods case

But the main takeaway is that Cal is going to try to get their 7500-8000 enrolled (or Spring 2023 committed) students.

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