Do you think it is going to be slightly easier for a kid from the SF Bay Area to get into Cal now that there is a cap on OOS students to 20%?
Source?
Recent WSJ article
“Some states, like North Carolina, already limit out-of-state enrollment at their flagship schools. In California, UC system president Janet Napolitano imposed a cap this year of about 20% on the share of international and out-of-state students at campuses in Los Angeles and Berkeley. At UCSD and other campuses, no limit was imposed.”
Any student from the bay area can get into Cal now. You are not denied admission if you live in the Bay area. You need to have the right stats/GPA to get in.
I definitely hope that they enforce the 20% cap on international and out-of-state students.
This year, I saw lots of kids with high stats from my son’s high school didn’t make it to Berkeley.
It actually has been going on for few years now.
What are you talking about? Source? I want to know more. I live in the Bay Area. I have a 3.7 as a History Major. I really want to get in.
In 2015,California residents make up 65.6 percent of the students offered freshman admission, compared to 65.8 percent last year
(http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/02/berkeley-admits-more-than-13000-prospective-freshmen)
In 2016, if 80% seats are reserved for Ca residents, I’m hoping it eases the way for qualified Ca students who have not been admitted in the past several years.
See #2 above for source.
The WSJ.
This is hard news to hear as an OOS applicant who’s absolutely in love with Berkeley. Oh well I suppose.
YESSSS. Don’t know if this will help me, though. CA resident, around a 4.1 UC GPA and 2230. I didn’t get a request for a letter of recommendation, so I’m getting pretty worried.
So does this mean that there will be 15% more California students accepted at Cal? Since the previous number was 65% California residents, and now its going to be 80%?
edit: I just realized im a transfer student this does nothing for me
I am really not up for doing the research. As I recall, there was a sharp, step increase in international and OOS Freshmen one year during the Recession (2009? 2011?). Still, I believe that it was held to 25% of Freshmen.
Keep the terms straight in your head. Yield is not the same for OOS and in-state. Therefore, do not compare Admissions numbers to the Enrollment numbers quoted by Napolitano. Between an increase in the absolute number of students to be admitted to Berkeley, and allowed to enroll, and a lowering of the OOS cap, yes, it will be easier this year to go to Berkeley as a California resident than in the recent past.
Do the research if you care how much easier. But understand that the total enrollment, the percent admitted, and the percent enrolled are all three variables and concepts that need to be kept distinct from each other and not conflated.
It just feels good to know that people who applied in November of 2015 have a higher chance of attending in the falll of 2016. It is a great feeling. I don’t want to get too into it, because I don’t want to get my hopes up.
Well. I don’t think they pick 80% from in-state because berkeley has a lot of international applicant compare to other schools.
So if the in-state admit rate for Berkeley was 19.5% last year, what do you guys think it will be this year?
@pleaseberkeley What do you mean by “higher chance?”
Less competition from out of staters obviously. More spots that we get priority in because of where we live.
Seems as though there is a misunderstanding — the articles I have read say that The UCs also froze California enrollment.
“The UC system will not expand enrollment of California freshmen and transfer students in the fall unless more state revenues are appropriated and will cap enrollment of out-of-state students at UCLA and UC Berkeley, UC President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday.”
From: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ln-uc-enrollment-20150303-story.html
Sorry to further crush yalls’ dreams and stuff but:
Under mounting political pressure to admit more California students into the state’s prized research university system, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday a cap on out-of-state enrollment at UC Berkeley and UCLA for the coming academic year.
But there is a catch: UC won’t add in-state spots either.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_27634630/uc-cap-out-state-students-at-berkeley-ucla