A rather long list of adjustments can be done to care for the additional students. This can include reducing the number of freshman admitted in 2018-2019. Don’t be surprised if, next year, UC-I acceptance rate drops by a couple of points.
UCs are unique in that they can take a smaller class next year knowing they can top it off with transfers two years later from California community colleges. The accordion method of taking a big class and then a smaller one, and then a ‘regular’ sized one doesn’t work as well at schools that don’t have the transfer pipeline.
That also means that junior transfer entry to UCI is likely to be more difficult in 2019.
There are rumors that the university is considering offering Saturday classes to
accommodate the extra number of students. Apartments that normally house upperclassmen are also being offered to freshmen. I’m not exactly sure what happened this year, but the average admitted SAT (old) scores shot up as well from 1782 to 2100. Could be that only a handful of kids took the old SAT so this may be meaningless.
Probably the old SAT submitters were the ones who took the old SAT, scored well, and did not bother taking any more standardized tests afterward. Those who took the old SAT and did not do that well presumably took either the new SAT or ACT afterward and submitted that.
@sleeplessmom1, could you please share the source of the average admitted SAT score for this year’s incoming class? That seems to be a huge change.
If you are not promising accommodation, it is not difficult at all to provide classes for 500 extra students. All it takes is a little money, which will be covered by the student fees. Must be a good time to be a landlord in Irvine, CA, though.
UofM had had a year or two where they were over-enrolled and yes they tightened up the next year’s target to get back on track. It happens and easy to understand. Kids apply to so many places that it is very much an art and science to guess who will actually enroll.
I know nothing about UCs, so forgive my ignorance, but … aren’t kids supposed to make decisions by May 1? Wouldn’t the admissions office know in early May that they had 500 extra students? I’m just wondering why it took them this long to figure it out.
@sbjdorlo - The average admitted SAT is published on the UCI admissions website. I believe the admission rate dropped as well.
https://www.admissions.uci.edu/discover/why-uci/admitted.php
They would know that they overenrolled on May 2. But the deadline for final high school transcripts is not until later, so it is not known until then how many of those admitted are (academically or otherwise) disqualified for not meeting conditions of admission related to final high school transcripts.
Such conditions include earning at least a 3.0 GPA in senior year and not earning any previously-unreported D or F grades.
“I know nothing about UCs, so forgive my ignorance, but … aren’t kids supposed to make decisions by May 1? Wouldn’t the admissions office know in early May that they had 500 extra students? I’m just wondering why it took them this long to figure it out.”
They knew they had an over-enrollment problem back in May, but the final transcripts for accepted students were not due until July 1st. So it was not until then that they could compile a list of whom they could rescind for failing to get the transcript in on time or due to bad grades.
So…they knew they had a problem for two months, but
they sat on their hands for that time, waiting for trivial, untypical excuses to trash 500 students’ lives, rather than work toward an actual solution…
which now they’re going to have to find, anyway. Well done. /sarcasm.
They knew they had a problem, but didn’t know which students would get D’s and F’s in their senior year, and didn’t know which students wouldn’t get their paperwork in on time.
^Right, but they knew the typical numbers of how many they usually rescinded according to their customary practices in the past. The problem they now need to fix is where to put these students, since they’re taking back their over-zealous rescissions. And THAT’S a problem they could have been solving the last two months, instead of waiting to play this game.
Was it ever stated that they were not preparing other contingencies for having more students than anticipated? Even if all of the 500 rescissions were due to academic deficiencies revealed in the final transcripts (as opposed to many from bureaucratic errors between the high schools and college that they eventually reinstated), that would still leave them 350 over, since they were 850 over to begin with.
That’s the way to apologize: Admit your error, admit the serious bad effects of your error, explain how you will correct your error, explain how you will make sure the error doesn’t happen again. Bravo, UCI Chancellor.
We need to see more of this kind of apology and less of the weasely no-pologies: “I’m sorry if people were offended by what I/we did,” as if it’s someone else’s fault that you did something offensive.
How many of the 500 were full pay international students who had their offers rescinded?
UC Irvine is my son 1st choose. For engineering.
Ant tips? Did any one heard back from them?
@dinas: Plenty of students have heard. You might want to check this very long thread: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-irvine/2051107-uc-irvine-class-of-2022-applicants.html#latest