For the first time in more than a decade, the odds of getting a coveted spot to attend the University of California rose this spring at every one of the system’s campuses, reversing a trend that has stressed out the state’s high school seniors and set off a high-stakes debate over who deserves a UC education… Freshman admission rates for Californians at the most competitive campuses — Berkeley, at 21.3 percent, and Los Angeles, at 17.7 percent — are still less than half of what they were in the 1990s. But both schools made offers this spring to more than 1,000 additional California high school seniors compared to the previous year.

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by Katy Murphy, The Mercury News.

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