<p>sunfish,</p>
<p>personally, I don’t believe that’s what they’re aiming at (I’m proof that they’re not too focused on that).</p>
<p>What I’ve read in the news, however, is that there’ll definitely be more OoS students who’ll be accepted because they pay more.</p>
<p>opposite from my school. like 20 got in last year. less than 10 this year.</p>
<p>I heard that berkeley wanted to accept more OOS students so they can rake in more $$</p>
<p>What 88888888 says is true, if you believe the Daily Cal article from a bit back.</p>
<p>hmmm… i dunno should i believe it or not? o.O</p>
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<p>Nope, the money you pay doesn’t even come close to covering school’s full expense of educating, feeding, and housing you. And the gap must be made up with funding from other sources - tax revenues, donations, profit from investments, or spending down the endowment. If they wanted to improve their financial picture they should cut admissions, not increase them. Taking on more and more kids justs puts them farther and farther behind.</p>
<p>Now one way they could use admissions to help financially would be to increase the <em>percentage</em> (not total number) of OOS kids admitted. They pay a lot more so the $$ gap is smaller per student.</p>
<p>Although the admit rate is up, who cares, we need people to make the curves lower anyways. =]</p>
<p>i dont know about the actual number of admits but the admit rate seems to have dropped drastically in my school(singapore) last year there were at least 10 admits and this year everyone i know who applied got rejected.</p>
<p>um. why do we think its changed much at all? all that berkeley gave numbers-wise seems almost exactly like last year, and all the info presented here is about single schools, where admissions are bound vary… im not denying its possible but based on all of the evidence given i dont see a reason to think there has been any makeover of admissions at cal</p>
<p>What sunfish says is evident at my school and some others that I have heard from. Some of the applicants whom one would not usually expect at Cal got in, and these are the applicants whose parents lean towards the higher end of the income brackets. Though, the UCs still retain their top notch students, they do seem to weedle out some of the less fortunate ones. Just an observation or mere coincidence. . .</p>
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<p>exactly what I was thinking :]</p>
<p>because berkeley loves not letting students get into desired classes. it’s very fun. in fact, it’ll probably happen to you.
and you can say we need kids to lower the curve but there’s not gonna be a curve when you aren’t in the class in the first place.</p>
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