EXEC SUMMARY: SIGN THE PETITION. INCREASE THE IN-STATE UC ENROLLMENT

The University of California system is broken when out-of-state students get preference over California students seeking admission.This needs to be fixed ASAP. Please sign this petition.

UC's admission rate for California resident freshmen applicants fell 2.9 percentage points to 60 percent statewide. For entering freshmen, 45 percent of offers at UC Berkeley went to out-of-state and international students; the figure was 42 percent at UCLA, 39 percent at UC San Diego and 35 percent at UC Davis.

It is indeed a disheartening trend that illustrates the growing inaccessibility to the state's premier public university system, the rate of homegrown students admitted to the University of California dropped to an unprecedented low in 2015
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-admits-record-number-of-out-of-state-freshmen-6363564.php
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28421818/uc-admission-rates-fall-lowest-levels

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We need to provide qualified California students an easy access to University of California education. We need to provide an opportunity for California students to study, live and work in the Golden State - and not have to send them elsewhere for a quality education. As tax payers, our sons and daughters are entitled to being given the strongest consideration into our University of California schools - and taxpayers of California are outraged that the UCs have increased the percentage of out of state and international students at the cost of in-state California students. If it means, working with our legislators to increase the allocation of UC $$, so be it, or perhaps raising taxes that feed directly into the UCs - but this practice of reduction in California state quotas into the UCs needs to stop!

At Breakthrough Silicon Valley, a nonprofit that shepherds star students from struggling families toward college, no one among the class of 28 was accepted at either Cal or UCLA in 2015 -- the first time in five years that has happened.

Admission rates at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara have plummeted to less than half of what they were in the mid-1990s, a new analysis by San Jose Mercury news demonstrates. The reason: UC charges in-state students less than $13,000 per year in tuition and fees, but students from outside the state pay more than $36,000.

This year, 11,183 freshman applicants who qualified for UC admission had no offers from their chosen campuses. Every year, more college-bound Californians feel the sting of rejection as spaces for the state's college-bound students lag further behind the soaring demand for Cal and other popular UC campuses.The end result, these qualified students flee the state to other quality universities - and parents have to fork up the additional "out of state" tuition fees. The situation gets worse every year.  

UCLA TOUGHEST TO GET IN: Competition was fiercest at UCLA, where only 16.3% of state students were admitted, down from 17.4% last year, and at UC Berkeley, where 18.8% were accepted, compared with 21.4% last year. UCLA received the most applications of any university in the nation - 86,521. The school accepted just 18.2%, including those from out of state. UC Berkeley received 73,771 and took 17.3%.

CALIFORNIA BERKELEY : Excellent grades, solid SAT scores and a long list of activities these days might not be enough to get you noticed by Cal, which turned away some 20,000 more applicants this year than Stanford, the nation's most selective campus.  Cal's in-state freshman admissions rate for the fall -- 40 percent in the mid-1990s -- has fallen to 13.5 percent, with another 5.3 percent of applicants given a spot in January. In the past two decades, as the number of Californians at Berkeley has remained flat, the school more than tripled its enrollment of out-of-state and international freshmen in 2012, enrolling about 1,150 in a class of 5,070. And last month, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced the campus would increase the non-Californians' proportion among undergraduates from 20 to 23 percent. "In order to sustain the excellence of our programs and the student experience, tuition from out of state and international students is crucial," he wrote in a letter to the campus explaining the decision.

Students who don't get their UC choice are usually referred to UC Merced, the Central Valley campus that opened in 2005. Officials said, however, that no qualified Californian was displaced by an out-of-stater and that all in-state students who met UC eligibility requirements would be offered a spot somewhere in the system, with UC Merced a possibility for those shut out of all other campuses. Why would California students make Merced a choice, if they had access to out of state schools with better names and programs?

SOURCE: http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25669089/uc-admission-harder-than-ever-californians