<p>My friend read from the OC register that says UC's (didn't specifically name them) are not admitting any more applicants directly out of high school meaning that only transfer students can go to UC's. I'm not sure if I heard him right but I also heard that there will be some year when UC's won't accept any applicants whether transfer or high school. This is supposedly due to the budget crisis.</p>
<p>What is he right guys? And when do you think the economy will start to recover?</p>
<p>I know California is hurting right now, but that makes absolutely no sense.</p>
<p>What’s the point of a college if new students can’t be accepted?</p>
<p>What a crock! If the UC system was not admitting any applicants directly out of high school, then please explain why their application web site opened like clockwork on October 1 for applications for pending high school graduates and transfers?</p>
<p>What may well happen is a reduction in high school and/or transfer slots, based on budget constraints. This did happen last year. They are trying to keep this from happening by making sharp increases in tutition (or I guess they just call them “fees” in the UC system.</p>
<p>Now I’ll have to Google the OC Register to see what was really said. Wow, this could really start a wild rumor mill going.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s right. Your friend was either joking or just not very bright. If they had financial problems, they’d stop accepting transfer students, and not freshmen. </p>
<p>The economy is starting to recover, but only slightly. I’m sure that less than half-way through 2010, we’ll start seeing some improvement.</p>
<p>No my friend wasn’t joking, he did show me the section of the OC register that said so. I only read a part of it since I was busy at that moment so I might not get a detailed understanding. </p>
<p>@FindAPlace
If the budget is bad then how come UC’s would rather admit high school transfer? I thought UC’s prefer transfer students?</p>
<p>I’d sure like to see a link to the article.</p>
<p>Let’s try some logic here. If the UC were only to take transfer students (meaning they have been taking college classes somewhere else), then who do they populate the freshman class with? I believe most transfers occur AFTER the freshman or sophomore years.</p>
<p>IIRC, last year with the budget crunch, they decreased incoming slots for HS transfers and held constant or slightly increased the transfer student slots. It varied from campus to campus. Any of these actions has a specific budgetary effect on that campus, and then systemwide. For example, if they decided to increase the number of slots for international applicants, it would help their budget because they pay OOS (higher) rates.</p>
<p>The graduation rates for transfer students are greater than incoming HS students going into their frosh year, this is true. This is logical as well.</p>
<p>UC’s are poor because there aren’t many benefactors donating. Harvard and other private schools get tons of money from donations given by former students.</p>
<p>UC’s will soon cease to exist unless California legalizes marijuana and starts taxing distribution of marijuana heavily. This decision is under scrutiny by the way. </p>
<p>LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND GET CALIFORNIA OUT OF DEBT!
IT’S THE ONLY WAY.</p>
<p>^^
Makes as much sense as much of this thread!</p>
<p>That doesn’t make any sense. It’s probably another rumor. I can see the UC’s perhaps cutting freshman and transfer enrollment due to the budget crisis, but I don’t think they will ever stop taking new students. How in the world will the school run without any new students? If they don’t accept any freshman students for one full year, it will not only have an effect on the undergraduate programs, but also on graduate programs, too. The most I could see happening is perhaps cutting down the # of students who get accepted.</p>
<p>@Hiroshi66</p>
<p>Your statement left me a bit confused. You do have a point that schools get money from more students and that it’ll hurt if they don’t have anymore. But what confuses me is that if the school really does get more money from the students wouldn’t schools have a higher acceptance rate? Each year more and more people are going to college since the job field is more demanding of education today. Or does the school get more money from state fundings (if they do) than from the students?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it make sense that if a school get more applicants, it should accept more and expand itself to a higher capacity?</p>
<p>^Well I think schools must remain fairly selective when it comes to admissions if they want to remain prestigious. Also, taking in more students means hiring more professors. If they cut back on students, the teachers do not have to work as much (furlough days) and get paid less. </p>
<p>I might be way off though.</p>
<p>Koreo is absolutely right. The more students a university accepts, the more professors they would need to hire. More textbooks would need to be ordered, in addition to more course offerings, etc. This is why a school may accept less students as a cost-cutting measure.</p>
<p>However, that is completely different from not accepting new students all together. That possibility is a new far fetched. A school may survive by accepting less students, but how are they supposed to survive if they don’t accept new students?</p>
<p>Think of it this way. An restaurant owner may cut hours of his employees, or even let one or two of his employees go if he needs to save money and cut costs. However, he’s not going to fire all of his employees (unless the business goes under… but that’s another story all together.) Without employees, how is he going to run his restaurant? </p>
<p>I think it is the same idea here. They may cut applicants in order to cut costs, but if they don’t accept any new students, what will happen? How is a school going to survive without any students? True, they may have existing sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are already there, but what about when those three classes graduate? They’re going to have a huge gap because they didn’t accept any students. Thus, I feel that the most drastic effect of this budget crisis will be less students being accepted, but nothing like what is mentioned above.</p>