<p>My counselor told me today that a few years after UC Merced was totally up and running that they would start planning UC REDDING. My counselor told me this because her grand daughter is on some advisory counsel. But, she says it is very very far away form happing.</p>
<p>I think this is so stupid, after I talked to her I looked up Redding, CA on a map and it way way up north. They need the have a school in Central Cal not way up north.</p>
<p>"They need the have a school in Central Cal"</p>
<p>like UC Bakersfield? or UC Fresno?</p>
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<p>Doubt it - I used to live in Fresno, and the area in general was very unpopular for the local youth (Bakersfield even more so). UC Merced is the worst mistake ever by the state school system; Regents should stop letting in students to the overflowing UCs, dramatically decrease the admissions rate and start deferring future applicants to look at the CSUs, which for the most part are literally empty.</p>
<p>Ya, I herd the same thing from my dad, which he was told by his friend that works at UC Berkeley. I could see why they will put it in Redding; there are more UC's in the so-central area than in the northern area. The most northern school is Davis and that’s not all that north.</p>
<p>Wow...
A professor at my school mentioned the same thing in class a couple weeks ago; he said that it was about 10 years away from happing. I first when he told our class I didn’t really think he knew what he was talking about, but now you guys say the same thing he must have been right. I still can’t believe there is going to be another UC.</p>
<p>that's retarded. why not invest in the existing/crappy UC's and make them better.</p>
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<p>FORGET the UCs, the CSUs are practically EMPTY! Start siphoning off students there for the love of God.</p>
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<p>That's what UC Merced is supposed to be. Merced was built after decades of lobbying by central CA politicians to get their own UC campus.</p>
<p>Cal states are practically empty? You must be kidding yourself. 13 of them already have over 15,000 student and the major ones in so cal are going close to 35,000 students. They obviously are not going to, 2 years back i can name countless students that were rejected from long beach and fullerton, yet got into everything from uci on down</p>
<p>it about time they have a school up north. i from nor cal and it seems that most of schools are so far away (except UC Davis), i think Redding is a good idea.</p>
<p>"it about time they have a school up north. i from nor cal and it seems that most of schools are so far away (except UC Davis), i think Redding is a good idea."</p>
<p>Um, ever heard of a little place called Berkeley? I do believe they consider that NorCal.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that he's heard of a little place called "Berkeley" smartass. For those that live in Sacramento or anywhere north of that, Berkeley is a pretty far drive.</p>
<p>Does Redding have a large enough population to support a UC? Southern California has four UCs -- UCLA, UCI, UCR, and UCSD, but it also has over 20 million people. Redding and its surroundiing counties have what, maybe 150 thousand people?</p>
<p>"I'm pretty sure that he's heard of a little place called "Berkeley" smartass."</p>
<p>Learn to read. This is what you life partner said:</p>
<p>"it about time they have a school up NORTH. i from NOR CAL"</p>
<p>What's UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>What I meant by saying by they need a school up north is that there is to pretty big gaps between chunks of UC campuses. Look at the distance from UCSB to UCM; and the distance from UCD and the northern end of California. I think they should fill in those spaces if theyre going to put schools anywhere, and they will fill in the gap by putting in a school at or near Redding.</p>
<p>look at the map: <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/campuspopup.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/campuspopup.html</a></p>
<p>"Does Redding have a large enough population to support a UC?"
Sure it does, I live about an hour away of Redding and its definitely a big enough place. Davis was a lot smaller than Redding before they put a school there.</p>
<p>we shoudl definitely see how merced does first before we start building another UC...</p>
<p>we don't need another UC...</p>
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<p>SDSU, Long Beach, Fullerton and Northridge are the CSUs with over 30,000 students; San José State University has 28,832; SFSU has 28,950; California State University, Fresno has 21,000; California State University, Los Angeles has 20,307; California State University, Sacramento has 27,972. Fresno and LA have some room for growth, but not much. Consider the others closed off.</p>
<p>California State University, Chico has 15,500; San Luis Obispo has 18,475; Pomona has 16,955. These CSUs have decent room for growth.</p>
<p>Excepted from this list is the California Maritime Academy.</p>
<p>And where does that leave the other 10 you failed to mention?</p>
<p>Humboldt State University: 9,318
California State University, East Bay: 11,848
California State University, Stanislaus: 6,192
California State University, Dominguez Hills: 8,698
Sonoma State University: 7,749
California State University, Bakersfield: 9,463
California State University, San Marcos: 8,461
California State University, San Bernardino: 14,000
California State University, Monterey Bay: <3500
California State University, Channel Islands: 2,200(!)</p>
<p>On the other hand:</p>
<p>Cal: over 30,000
Davis: 27,000
UCI: over 24,000
UCLA: 35,000(!)
Mercred: a pathetic 1300
Riverside: 16,000
UCSD: 25,000
UCSB: over 20,000
Santa Cruz: 15,000</p>
<p>For the UCs, the ones with breathable room for accomodating a significant future influx of larger student bodies are UCI to a minor extent (since it is undergoing massive expansion efforts), Merced obviously, Riverside of course, Santa Barbara to some extent, and Santa Cruz. The others are quickly approaching their sizeable limits or have surpassed them. On the other hand, there are many CSUs that could accomodate massive increases in student populations.</p>
<p>Also, UC Merced's growth is going to stagnate for the foreseeable future, since the campus is in a very undesirable location.</p>
<p>There's one definite reason to why UC Redding cannot exist:</p>
<p>There already is a UCR right now. We don't want two UCRs.
This is the same reason why UC Bakersfield cannot exist.</p>
<p>actually ucm shares the reject designation with R... and to a certain extent UCSC.</p>