California’s high school seniors faced slightly tougher odds to gain admission to the University of California this year and more than 10,700 of them were offered a spot, sometimes several, on the university’s new and controversial waiting lists, according to statistics released Wednesday.
Of the 82,056 California applicants to UC, 71.6% were offered freshman entrance to at least one of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses. That was down from 72.5% last year and 75.4% the year before, reflecting in part cutbacks in enrollment due to state budget reductions, the figures show.
Full story: UC freshman admission rate drops a bit; more than 10,000 wait-listed