UC increases in-state acceptances
The University of California on Monday announced a 15 percent increase in acceptances from California residents for 2016 fall admissions. The announcement comes as the UC system has been criticized for admitting too many students from other states and countries, the Los Angeles Times wrote.
While a record number of more than 200,000 applications were submitted to UC, 62.7 percent of first-year applicants from California were admitted. Data for admitted transfer students, as well as for each individual UC campus has not yet been made available.
This announcement came just days after a state audit criticized the UC system for harming California students by admitting so many from out of state. “We’ve intensified our efforts to boost enrollment of Californians at the University and all indications are that these efforts are working,” UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement on Monday. “Now, with additional state funding, we are able to bring in even more California students.”
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