Please take this the right way but 23% isn’t so unreasonable given it was just 8% 10 years ago.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not really for or against foreign students. I’m just pointing out today’s reality and the impact on real estate. I have met a few of them and they enjoy being here and plan to stay if possible.
If they do stay, then the likelihood of a significant price drop is lower.[/quote]Esco, I can’t discern where your page of stats is coming from but assuming those figures are true, how is it that it “isn’t unreasonable” that out of state admissions have gone up at UCSD 198% from 2005 to 2015 and out of country admissions have gone up 684% while San Diego County resident admissions have gone down 5% in the same time frame? I don’t know how old your kids are but do you want them to slave away in HS to get all the requirements to be admitted to UCSD PLUS achieve an overall GPA of over 4.0 to be admitted to UCSD under today’s standards and then get turned down as freshmen applicants in favor of (often lesser-qualified) OOS and OOC applicants?
Do you have any idea how much (required) on-campus housing costs in CA for out-of-area freshmen at a CA public university? Try ~$1500 month each to share a 4-person, 1000 sf unit for nine months (incl utilities) and then your student will be forced to move out in one day (1-2 days before senior graduation). How about off-campus housing? In eastern Los Angeles County, it costs approx $1125 month for an older 1 bdrm apt in an established area (not incl utilities). $1700 month for a shared 2-bdrm apt in the same area (not incl utilities). ~$650 month each (incl utilities) to share a smallish 4 bdrm condo with 3 other students, where only two students can park in the garage and the others must park off the compound (in the street, and remember to move their vehicles on “street sweeping” days). If they get off work after midnight, they must often walk five minutes or more to their unit. And it costs up to $1000 month each (incl utilities and depending on bdrm size) to rent a 4-5 bdrm house with 3-4 other students. Double these rent amounts for similarly-situated units/houses near LA Westside public universities such as UCLA and CSULB or OC coastal campuses such as UCI or SF East Bay campuses such as CSUEB (Hayward). Double and a half these amounts for SF Peninsula public universities such as SFSU and SJSU. In all cases, a one-year lease is mandatory, regardless if your kid stays in the area for summer classes … or not. The vast majority of CA families can’t afford out-of-county housing for their student to attend university (unless they have relatives in the area of the campus willing to put them up for 2-4 years).
UCSD has actually been admitting more than TWICE as many students from LA County as they have been admitting from SD County! All the while many qualified SD County HS graduates who didn’t make it into UCSD or even SDSU are languishing for YEARS in CC and graduating with a “Associate Degrees of Transfer” whilst being again turned down as a Junior applicant to their home-county public universities and thus thrust out into the retail and hospitality work market with a virtually worthless degree (because it was designed for just ONE purpose … CA public university admission for which they can’t get admitted to without paying many thousands per year to live somewhere else).
The Regents and the CSU Board doesn’t owe these coddled OOS and OOC applicants a damn thing. Of course everyone wants to live in SD and wants to stay! But this isn’t the problem of the Native San Diegan HS graduate who can’t get into UCSD, SDSU or CSUSM because an OOS/OOC applicant who had lesser credentials took their seat!
Esco, don’t you think that qualified local students should have the first shot at admission to their CA home county universities so they can live at home for “free” and complete their bachelor’s degrees? I wouldn’t be surprised if the Regents are already facing lawsuits over their egregious admission practices favoring OOS/OOC applicants over in-state and home-county applicants. This is a travesty for both CA HS graduates and their parents because it is happening at ALL UC campuses statewide and the CA state auditor specifically criticized and questioned these practices to the Governor and Legislature in April of this year. I would be interested to see what the UC stats for OOS/OOC freshman admissions look like for Fall 2016.
If these OOS/OOC students from well-heeled families are dead set on attending college on the CA coast, they are welcome to apply to CA’s many private universities which don’t use our taxpayer funds which should be set aside for resident applicants (with taxpaying parents). We don’t owe them seats in our ~32 public universities as these campuses don’t even have enough room to accommodate all of the qualified IN-STATE freshman and junior applicants they get! And yes, ALL of CA’s public campuses have their own deep-pocketed donors … including their own respective (very successful) alumni!
