College choice regret?

DadWith2Sons
Sun, 15 May 2011 10:03:45 +0000

…Also, keep in mind that the UC’s have been hit HARD financially, with lots of classes being canceled and most students finding it impossible to graduate in four years.

Where did you get the data? I’ve heard rumors and perhaps some irresponsible media/newspapers, but no fact.

In fact, the above questions were asked numerously on all campus open-house, and the answers were the budget hit the support staffs (not the teaching faculties) and there were a few furlough days.
For CAL, I’ve checked the average graduation rate is still 8 semesters, but for other UC campuses (UCLA, UCSD, UCSB…) they are more like 13-14 quarters = 4.5 years if not taking summer classes. They claimed more and more folks are doing double majors/minors…

It is true that owing to the CA budget, they are NOT adding more classes to accommodate for additional students, the lower division classes are getting bigger, it presents a problem for incoming freshmen, in particular, with pre-requisites and general eds…However, students always manage to get those GE/breath classes out of the way in 4 years by careful scheduling.

Furthermore, most folks (with tons of APs) are coming in at sophomore standings, unless one takes on more than 2 majors, graduating in 4 years is very possible.