UC Berkeley must slash new enrollment by a third unless high court intervenes

[Anonymous]

UC Berkeley must slash new enrollment by a third unless high court intervenes. UC Berkeley has been denied relief from a court-ordered enrollment freeze. It may be forced to mail out 5,100 fewer acceptance letters next month.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/02/14/uc-berkeley-enrollment-drop-court-of-appeal-ruling

[Anonymous]

Bokovoy argues that UC Berkeley admitted 1,714 non-resident first years in 2020 and increased graduate enrollment by a similar number. Eliminating those would allow Cal to cut back its admission. Cal said in its statement today that it already has offered spaces to graduate students so that group cannot be cut.

[Anonymous]

And they received some 20,000 more applications this year compared to last year. It will be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Keep more OOS students to get the money potentially lost due to fewer students or offer more acceptances to in state students?

[Anonymous]

Didn’t they already send out early admission letters about a week ago?

[Anonymous]

Stupid anti-growth neighborhood groups. The height of obnoxiousness!!!

[Anonymous]

Guess they need to boost their online course offering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep more OOS students to get the money potentially lost due to fewer students or offer more acceptances to in state students?

California (unlike local states) has a government that cares about in state students and makes UC take a significant portion of them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stupid anti-growth neighborhood groups. The height of obnoxiousness!!!

But the UC Regents also sought to make Cal comply with the court ordered student cap as well as providing environmental impacts studies. The article reads as if Cal just decided to ignore the population cap order but got caught.

[Anonymous]

Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

Yes. In-state students fill out one application and pay for each school they want to apply to - it's super easy to check all the boxes and that is what most top CA students do. So if Cal slashes enrollment, expect a lot of those in-state students to shift to UCLA, UCSD, and UCD.

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Anonymous wrote:Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

Take this with a grain of salt, but our school counselors said that our (CA UCB Feeder) HS historically has almost no overlap between Cal and UCLA admittances, even kids that got into Harvard MIT and Stanford would only get into one of the two, and that it was intentionally done? Again this is just what they said.

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Anonymous wrote:Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

I think ucla is more stats focused and ucb is slightly less stats focused but more holistic and Essays/ECs matter more. It is relatively rare to get into both because they have low acceptance rates and value different stuff, but there’s still a fair share of people who end up doing it every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

Looks like my kid will be attending UC Merced!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would this affect enrollment at other UC's especially UCLA?

I think ucla is more stats focused and ucb is slightly less stats focused but more holistic and Essays/ECs matter more. It is relatively rare to get into both because they have low acceptance rates and value different stuff, but there’s still a fair share of people who end up doing it every year.

I would think it's the other way?