<p>I was just thinking the other day about what if an unexpected amount of students accept to Berkeley? They admit 12k students, so what if 8k students accepted for only 4k spots? </p>
<p>idk just bored...</p>
<p>Well they have to take everyone who meets the conditions of admission, but would probably be harsher with those who didn’t (potentially more harsh with certain demographics/tuition types? <em>conspiracy theory alert</em>), class sizes go up, more difficult to get into classes, more triples in dorms? I’d think/hope they have a pretty good methodology with regards to offers v. spots though, seeing as they’ve been doing this for 100+ years :P</p>
<p>They don’t. The University of California system has to take everyone who meets the conditions of admission; Berkeley can afford to be a bit more selective.</p>
<p>I can almost guarantee you that that would not happen. There have been cases where classes are overenrolled, but usually by just a hundred or two people. Even this overenrollment is very problematic for a University. I’m sure that Berkeley has its yield down to a science. Is overenrollment a possibility? Yes, but not by 4000 people as you suggested. If Berkeley has a waitlist (does it?), I’m sure they would admit a bit less people than they think will attend just to cover themselves. If underenrollment occurs, they go to the waitlist. If overenrollment occurs, they are screwed.</p>
<p>I don’t think any UCs have a waitlist, least I’ve never heard of anyone being waitlisted at a UC in the past 4 years of my life. Berkeley and SD have the spring admit. So overenrollment is overenrollment.</p>
<p>UCI has a wait-list this year. UCB and UCSD use winter/spring admits as their waitlist. If over enrollment occurs this year due to economic conditions – then watch out next year.</p>
<p>lol. In the HISTORY OF Universities, when has this really happened before to a prestigious institution like Berkeley? a 100% increase in projected spots? Did it happen in the 70s downturn, late 80s, dot-com crash, the small recession after WW2, etc?</p>
<p>They are usually dead on predicting the number of people that’s gonna enroll. They spend lots of time in this.</p>
<p>I suspect they use historical data from previous admission years to determine how many students are going to enroll and how many to admit. </p>
<p>But I was wondering if they had already made a decision how many to enroll, then the financial crisis hit and now a lot of students are turning to state schools instead of expensive private colleges. I dunno, just a thought…</p>
<p>But the downturn was already pretty bad before the deadline</p>
<p>The UCs have to accept people who meet the conditions of admissions, so if this were to happen (which I doubt it), it will be larger classes, more competitive than it’s already is, more crowded in dorms, and the overall prices for food & living might go up. But it has never been this bad before, but I guess this year is different because of the financial crisis we’re in …</p>
<p>So the yield should increase this year?</p>
<p>^ I guess because I already know many people who are rejecting private universities to attend cheaper public universities.
All of the CSUs (California State Universities) cut down enrollment this year, I know they even rejected some students that were accepted to Cal or other prestigious universities.
So yea, I think the yield definitely will be higher this year. Besides, Cal is the only UC campus that actually increased its enrollment spots this year.</p>
<p>but they reject those students only because they have a feeling you’re just applying to them as backup…the way i see it</p>
<p>You never know, that could be their first choice</p>