UC puts 10,000 applicants on waiting list
Last Modified: Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 12:24 am
For the state's high school seniors, this was the toughest year ever to get into the University of California, with seven of the nine undergraduate campuses reporting the lowest admission rates on record and – for the first time – more than 10,000 applicants being offered a spot on a waiting list.
A-plus students are now the average – not the exception – at most UCs, data released Wednesday show. At all but three UC campuses, the mean grade-point-average of admitted students is above 4.0.
Students must work harder and score higher to get into UC because more high schoolers are seeking a college education at the same time the state has cut funding to public universities. UC cut freshman enrollment for this fall for the second year in a row – by 3,800 students compared with two years ago.
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