2. Issue with CA state funding and cutback at state schools. This was to be expected if you look at the state’s budget. I’d expect less enrollment, increased tuitions and possibly reduction of non-essential labor at the universities in the future.
Yeah pretty much. Students are a cost for the UC, so when there are budget cuts they can be made up by limiting enrollment and raising fees.
Mind you, the cuts are much less worse than the news reports have made them out to be. There was some judicious PR involved.
UCSD remains one of the top science schools in the country, so there will be no shortage of applicants for the foreseeable future.
Admissions
For the 2007-2008 academic period, UC San Diego received 45,093 freshmen applications of which 18,547 students were offered fall admission, making the admission rate about 41.13%. Also, the number of students applying to UC San Diego makes it the second most popular UC campus, after UCLA. [1] Admitted students attained a mean weighted high school GPA of 4.06 and average SAT scores of 635, 670, and 640 for Critical Reading, Math and Writing, respectively. Of the 18,547 freshmen that were admitted, 99% were in the top ten percent of their high school class [2]. It is number 3 among just the UC system. The top four overlapping schools for applicants are: Berkeley, UCLA, USC, and Stanford respectively.[citation needed]
Matriculating students tend to indicate a preference for the University’s large environment and largely renowned professors and programs. 31% of admitted students receive federal Pell grants.[34]
Graduate admissions are largely centralized through the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the Rady School of Management, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) handle their own admissions.
