[quote]All campuses of UC (excepting Fresno, Merced and Santa Cruz) are overwhelmingly accepting freshman with 4.0+ GPA (weighted with AP credits) along with out-of-state/out-of-country applicants with same credentials over similarly or less qualified in-state residents. [/quote]
I’m revising my earlier comment.
I just logged onto collegeboard.org and realized the HS senior acceptance cutoff date (for academic year 13/14) was between 4/15/13 and 5/1/13 so *new* acceptance data is now available for UC/CSU.
The overall (in-state/OOS/OOC) freshman admission percentage of out total applicants for the following five campuses, which, except for UCSC, are located in CA’s “armpit,” are now as follows:
Name of Campus/% of freshman applicants admitted for AY 13/14
One can only guess how much of this low percentage of freshman-applicant acceptance is actually comprised of CA residents.
Conversely, it seems to be getting slightly easier now for freshmen to get accepted at some of CA’s urban public university campuses. I attribute this reversal to CA families now realizing how cheap it is to buy or rent housing for their student in CA’s (overbuilt) armpits as opposed to the cost of obtaining housing near CA’s more coastal urban campuses. Thus, the high-school grads who did not get accepted to their first or second-choice campuses out-of-county undoubtedly ended up taking a slot in the inland campuses for AY 13/14.
