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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion about NOVA students and difficulty with getting into in state schools reminds me of what's going on in California now (I have family out there).  With the budget shortfalls, universities are having to cut enrollment drastically.  Middling schools are now only accepting 25%-50% of applicants, so California students are flocking to colleges in Arizona and Oregon.[/quote]
[b]Does that mean that the CA colleges are more likely to accept out of state applicants who will pay OOS tuition? [/b]This would be welcome news in our house b/c DD is dying to go to USC.  [/quote]

My understanding is that California Publics are taking more OOS to make up up for budget cuts, but it's still challenging to get in.  USC is actually a private school, though.

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This is correct.  USC is completely private and very expensive - it cannot be compared to the Univ. of CA. system.  It is, however, a party school and located in a crummy area of Los Angeles.  Lots of Greek Life.  A family relative went there and now has $100K in loans and no job.  But being in-state or OOS won't help you there, although just applying from anywhere else but Los Angeles will be a help.

The Univ. of Cal system (Berkeley, UCLA, etc.) is indeed in financial trouble.  They are actively soliticing OOS who will pay full freight.  You have a significanlty better chance of getting in to any of the U.C. schools applying from OSS.  The Univ. of Cal also takes a much great no. of OSS than VA schools do and that no. was recently increased even further by the legislature.

The Cal State program is yet another tier of Callifornia Universities.  Those universities take Californians first.  We were told (MD) not to even bother trying because those universities are all "oversubscribed" by Californians.[/quote]

An article about this year's admissions says that the UC schools are less than 10% OOS system wide.  The more desirable schools (UCLA, Berkeley) admitted about 1/3 OOS, but expect a lower yield on OOS than in state.  So UVA and W&M, at 1/3 OOS attending, are still slightly higher than CA.  The admission rates seem to be slightly more favorable at the top CA schools than the top VA schools.[/quote]

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