The University of California, breaking a long-standing promise, will turn away qualified freshmen applicants for the first time this fall, UC officials said Thursday. With budgets cuts forcing the university to reduce enrollment 10 percent in the coming school year, UC cannot meet its mandate under the state Master Plan for Higher Education to find a place for all applicants from the top eighth, or 12.5 percent, of California’s graduating seniors, said Susan Wilbur, UC’s director of undergraduate admissions. “Since the Master Plan was adopted in 1960, the University of California has been able to accommodate all UC-eligible students,” Wilbur said in a news conference by telephone. “This will the first time that we have not been able to offer a place to every UC-eligible student.”

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by Charles Burress, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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