still nothing for me
@VASkydog It’s not that really. It’s that we pay into the system and our kids can’t necessarily attend. Not everyone wants to go out of state and a high achiever shouldn’t have to start at a community college because the UC’s can’t properly manage their budgets. There are more administrators than students attending the UCs and they have a huge reserve. They need to do better to accommodate the families who fund them.
@Marlinmom Blame that to your own state for your state’s population. lol
@Marlinmom To be fair public funding of the UCs is a very small portion of the budget. It’s not like in Florida where there is a prepaid tuition plan. If a student is in the top 9% they are entitled admission to a UC but not necessarily one of their choice. Right now Merced is the only one that will auto admit an ELC student. To be at the forefront of education the UCs need oos students. Some of my best friends in school are oos and they bring unique perspectives.
I agree with that, but seems like there is nothing we can do. Our child wants to attend school out of state, but my husband says NO WAY because we have paid high CA taxes for decades. We deserve to send our child to a CA school. Since you mention cc, I believe they make it much easier nowadays for this type of student to transfer. My friend has a son who had bad grades all through middle and high school and went to cc for 2 years and got accepted as a transfer to SB, Irvine, and SD whereas his sister, who worked her behind off for a stellar GPA and SAT score got rejected by SB, and SD, and SLO and has UCI as her only hope.
@lilacs2 One thing is how will a student know what UC they willl get into. Even with top stats a student can’t assume they will get into Ucla or UC Berkeley. They need to cast a wide net just in case. There are no gurantees or good predictors as the top 4 UCs are a crapshoot now.
@lilacs2 Taxes are everywhere, not just California. You got to look at the nationwide perspective of students moving in and out of states for colleges.
Is it weird that I applied to only 3 cali schools? SDSU, UCI, and UCSD.
@lilacs2 I was conservative- only applied to 2 UC’s- UCI and UCSD because i thought i was capable of those and the location.
Decision: Waitlisted
SAT: 1120
UC GPA: 4.1
Amazing EC’s and Essays
Accepted: UCSB, UCSC, UCR, SDSU
@kynediv where u attending,
@lilac2 The high CA taxes don’t all go to the UCs. In fact very few of your tax dollars do. To make that argument you need to have more dollars allocated to the UC. I know it’s frustrating but that’s just how competitive things have gotten.
@kynediv ECs? Essays? 
@marlinmom The whole “we pay taxes therefore our kids should get to go” is a politically popular soundbite, but it is a recipe for the single choice system I describe. When capacity is limited, the eventual outcome of that kind of thinking is zero OOS. And if everyone thinks that way then no quality state school anywhere will take OOS students. The only losers are the kids who become captive to their own state system because they won’t be admitted to OOS schools even if those OOS schools might be a better match for the child.
I know for a fact that the people who run our flagship university would love to have more OOS students because they are highly qualified and bring valued perspectives to our campus. It is the bonehead politicians and the short-sighted parents who complain to them that cause these types artificial and unfortunate caps.
Oh, and by the way, do you want to stop me from doing business in California because I happen to use roads and airports that your tax dollars might have paid for? Your road is too crowded, oh, OK, just ban OOS drivers. Don’t like the wait at the security line at the airport, oh, OK, just ban travelers from OOS. This kind of parochial thinking undermines our efforts to unite as Americans with the freedom to pursue happiness wherever it might be. Truly sad.
Y’all still have the CSU’s, are we forgetting about the CSU’s?? Not nine of them, but 23!! WOW. I wonder why they even exist…
Is UCI even looking at academic rigor? Why are majority of ppl getting in ones that took no ap/honors classes and have 1290-1370 SAT. I know they received 4.0s w those easy classes but still makes me feel like I wasted so much time and effort in challenging classes and studied hard for the SAT for nothing. They seemed to be waitlisting all the qualified applicants as well, people that I forsure know took more challenging classes/had better GPA and SAT score. UC admissions is all over the place this year.
honestly pretty worried right now so i just need some reasurrance :)) what are my chances looking like?
8 IB courses / 9 AP courses
W GPA 4.29
UC GPA 3.79
EC’s water polo, swim, president stocks and investments, 150 hours volunteering
SAT 1370
ACT 31
thanks!
bleh
Can we please keep the political posts off this thread? It’s stressful enough without it. Open a new thread if you want to discuss how your tax dollars are spent.
That is why the old method worked better. You applied to your #1 and the selected 2 alternatives. That’s it!