<p>The way the administration words things would be approximately:</p>
<p>Admittance of non-resident students is added on top of in-state residents, with the approximate target of CA students being around 4,000. </p>
<p>So the 4,000 is a constant, some years as much as 4,500, regardless of how many non-residents choose to enroll, which of course means that UCLA has a serious problem of over-enrolling recently. Look at the years prior to the U targeting non-residents. CA enrollment has been fairly constant at around the 4,000-4,500 figure, and if that was the predominance of enrollment, the U would take more transfers. </p>
<p>The problem that UCSD has is that it has a low yield for incoming frosh and transfers. All publics and most privates have low yields, certainly, compared to the Ivies and some others, but SD has a woefully low yield for as great a U as it is. Because of the low instate resident yield of SD, nonresident enrollment has actually eaten into instate rates. </p>
<p>Nice “talking” with you and hopefully no hard feelings.</p>