UC, CSU wait-listing students for the first time
Published: Saturday, Apr. 3, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
California's public universities are using waiting lists this year for the first time, telling some top-notch students to wait two more months before they find out if they're in.
The practice – long common at selective private colleges – is yet another fallout from the state's budget crisis, as the University of California and California State University look for ways to trim enrollment in response to last year's historic funding cuts.
The public universities want to admit as many students as the state funds them for – but not a single person more. Waiting lists allow campuses to fine-tune the process so they hit their enrollment targets right on the mark.
"This gives them the opportunity to take additional students if it turns out they have a little bit of space at the end of the (admissions) process," said Susan Wilbur, UC's director of undergraduate admissions.
The UC system received a record number of applications this year: 134,029. The same is true at CSU, where more than 609,000 students
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