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UC’s implement wait lists and hope to reduce enrollment cuts

•  Posted by Sarah Ziegler on January 21st, 2010 in Admissions
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The University of California Regents announced at their most recent meeting that under Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget, UC’s may not have to reduce freshman enrollment by the full 2,300 spots that they had initially predicted. While the proposed budget allocation of just over $3 billion to UC’s is still less than requested, and still most likely means some cuts in freshman enrollment, it does not represent a further drop in funding from last year’s levels.

Due to uncertainty about both the final budget to be passed in Sacramento and in the yields of this year’s freshman classes, all UC campuses are implementing wait lists. UC Irvine last year piloted a wait list for the class of 2013, although this will be the first time that systemwide wait lists will be used in the history of the UC. Although the number of applicants who will be placed on wait lists remains unknown, this move should help UC’s meet their enrollment targets more precisely, and hopefully allow more of the record 134,029 applicants to gain admission to a UC.

Click here to read the full Regents announcement and to learn more about the record number of UC applications for the fall of 2010.

Updated 2/9: UC’s have announced that UCLA and UC Merced will not implement waitlists this year but that all other campuses will waitlist applicants to cope with a projected overenrollment of 15,000 students.

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