@Hamurtle how about the year of the White Tiger? Lot of babies for that year?
^someone knows too much off-color Chinese slang. Or knows about the Baidu animals. Like the grass *** horse.
http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Projections/Public_K-12_Graded_Enrollment/
Open the spreadsheet that is linked from the above page. Click on the bottom tab “HS Grads Table”. Scroll down to the total in row 63.
This shows the projected number of public high school graduates in the state of California by year. 2017-18 was a local maximum, followed by decline projected to 2019-20, then increasing through 2023-24, followed by a larger decline.
Surely…surely this kind of stuff is less prevalent than it used to be?
@Hamurtle Hear about it on the news. Of course, they don’t tell you what is the birth rate going to be.
@ucbalumnus thanks for the useful infor.
Year of the Tiger kids are avoided by the Cantonese Chinese speaking community since the word tiger is a homonym for the word hardship (“fu”).
@ProfessorPlum168 the other poster’s tiger reference was not family friendly…I would explain it but it’s vulgar Chinese slang and would get me kicked off CC.
^ Yes I know what the reference is, we guys probably use it a bit more often in regards to this. Quite frankly in Chinese or in other languages you can easily twist words to get something pretty bad. “White horse” for example is a pretty bad term in Korean.
It is splitting hairs but when this year’s applicants were entering kindergarten, the cut off in California was Dec 1, not Sept 1.
Looking to the next couple of years, students born in June, 2002 were conceived on or around Sept 11. There was an increase in births in June which I believe was followed by a decline as people wondered if they wanted to bring children into our world.
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^ that would have to do more with next year’s applicants, so not sure what your point is re: 2018 applicants.
Yes, sorry, I was referring to trends going forward - the current junior class and maybe the beginning the the current sophomore class.
Haha @ProfessorPlum168 I have Korean friends and they know that slang term.
Back to the originally scheduled program, I think that there are so many issues with the UCs that more often than not private schools are better alternatives.