Janet Napolitano, UC’s flak catcher, on admissions policy, tuition hikes and more
We’ve got other really good schools, so there is a place for a student like this. The number of California students has not been reduced by the acceptance of international or out-of-state students. Those have been add-ons. Systemwide, it’s around 10% [for nonresidents]. It is higher at UCLA and Berkeley. Other public universities we compare ourselves to, like Michigan and Virginia, are in the 30% to 40% range. Out-of-state students pay for in-state students. Half of the California kids pay no tuition. A quarter pay less than the sticker price. Everybody focuses on the sticker price; that’s bad marketing by us. We should focus on the average actual cost to students, which is much lower.
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by Patt Morrison, The Los Angeles Times.