college loans and college applications

[lostkitty]

DWCAP-

I see your logic on the application numbers – and I agree it is the cause (applying to so many vs. one or two in the past)…

However, I disagree about the federal loans being the thing that keeps the college attendance numbers up.

In general, tuition is much higher than the federal loans would cover for middle-class kids.

[barnaby33]

Its been my experience that downturns in general lead to increased competition for enrollment. When people lose their jobs, they try to get education to get a new job. It used to be say 20 years or so ago, that the majority of college acceptances were from high school. Sometime in the 90’s (early I think) it switched to being more JC transfer students and re-curving professionals. For example in my computer science program we were almost equally divided between kids like me going through the system for the fist time, vs adults who were already in the work world and re-curving to make a better living.

Josh

[barnaby33]

Its been my experience that downturns in general lead to increased competition for enrollment. When people lose their jobs, they try to get education to get a new job. It used to be say 20 years or so ago, that the majority of college acceptances were from high school. Sometime in the 90’s (early I think) it switched to being more JC transfer students and re-curving professionals. For example in my computer science program we were almost equally divided between kids like me going through the system for the fist time, vs adults who were already in the work world and re-curving to make a better living.

Josh

[barnaby33]

Its been my experience that downturns in general lead to increased competition for enrollment. When people lose their jobs, they try to get education to get a new job. It used to be say 20 years or so ago, that the majority of college acceptances were from high school. Sometime in the 90’s (early I think) it switched to being more JC transfer students and re-curving professionals. For example in my computer science program we were almost equally divided between kids like me going through the system for the fist time, vs adults who were already in the work world and re-curving to make a better living.

Josh

[barnaby33]

Its been my experience that downturns in general lead to increased competition for enrollment. When people lose their jobs, they try to get education to get a new job. It used to be say 20 years or so ago, that the majority of college acceptances were from high school. Sometime in the 90’s (early I think) it switched to being more JC transfer students and re-curving professionals. For example in my computer science program we were almost equally divided between kids like me going through the system for the fist time, vs adults who were already in the work world and re-curving to make a better living.

Josh

[barnaby33]

Its been my experience that downturns in general lead to increased competition for enrollment. When people lose their jobs, they try to get education to get a new job. It used to be say 20 years or so ago, that the majority of college acceptances were from high school. Sometime in the 90’s (early I think) it switched to being more JC transfer students and re-curving professionals. For example in my computer science program we were almost equally divided between kids like me going through the system for the fist time, vs adults who were already in the work world and re-curving to make a better living.

Josh

[kewp]

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.

[kewp]

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.

[kewp]

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.

[kewp]

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.

[kewp]

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.

[CMcG]

Oh, great. Our kid was accepted two years ago at SDSU, too, but the nursing program is “impacted” and there’s a three-year waiting list. Goes to a private college in CA, big merit scholarship but we are tapped out after paying for the first two years. The kid will be a junior in the fall. Withougt student loans…sunk. Any advice appreciated.

[CMcG]

Oh, great. Our kid was accepted two years ago at SDSU, too, but the nursing program is “impacted” and there’s a three-year waiting list. Goes to a private college in CA, big merit scholarship but we are tapped out after paying for the first two years. The kid will be a junior in the fall. Withougt student loans…sunk. Any advice appreciated.

[CMcG]

Oh, great. Our kid was accepted two years ago at SDSU, too, but the nursing program is “impacted” and there’s a three-year waiting list. Goes to a private college in CA, big merit scholarship but we are tapped out after paying for the first two years. The kid will be a junior in the fall. Withougt student loans…sunk. Any advice appreciated.

[CMcG]

Oh, great. Our kid was accepted two years ago at SDSU, too, but the nursing program is “impacted” and there’s a three-year waiting list. Goes to a private college in CA, big merit scholarship but we are tapped out after paying for the first two years. The kid will be a junior in the fall. Withougt student loans…sunk. Any advice appreciated.

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