More students have applied to attend a University of California campus next year than any year in UC’s history… About 127,000 students applied to attend at least one of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses during the fall 2009 term – a 5 percent increase over last year. During sound economic times, that would be more students than UC campuses have room to admit. Only 77,521 of the 121,005 undergraduates who applied for 2008 – a UC record at the time – were accepted. But these are not sound economic times for the state’s university systems. UC regents warned in November that they would cut freshman enrollment for 2009 if the state didn’t give them additional money. The UC system was already enrolling about 10,000 more students than the state gave them money for.

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by Robert Faturechi, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: January 5th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.