<p>[YouTube</a> - 32% Inflation in UCLA Tuition Causes Near Riots (14 Arrested, 1 Tasered)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33UU6MKuWSE)</p>
<p>[UC</a> regents approve 32% student fee hike – latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-cuts20-2009nov20,0,7218101.story]UC”>UC regents approve 32% student fee hike)</p>
<p>And the nobody mentions that blue&gold plan was raised to families that make less then $70k a year.</p>
<p>^Thats good news!</p>
<p>Not for the rich people…</p>
<p>Your right, why is no one thinking of the rich people!? I heard they live on less than a dollar a day…</p>
<p>70k a year is very little in the cupertino area :</p>
<p>total shi.t
I hate this
i mean at least it’s not as high as penn state’s in state tuition–they’re almost at 15,000 just for tuition alone, SO, things could def. be worse but at the same time come ON it was like 7,500 a year ago wasn’t it?</p>
<p>Hey you’re preachin’ to the choir. Originally the UC system was supposed to offer free tuition, sort of a Blue&Gold for everyone…but you see how we’ve strayed from that just a tad bit…</p>
<p>They used to brag on how UC’s educated the brightest not the richest back in the day. That was the whole point.</p>
<p>blue and gold?</p>
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<p>They haven’t been under $7,500 since the 2004-2005 academic year. Using UCSC as reference since I knew where to find this information offhand fairly quickly. If anyone has a source for the fees at the other UC campuses, I’d love to have links so I can see them too :)</p>
<p>Archival UCSC fees:
2008-2009: 9244.11
2007-2008: 8689.70
2006-2007: 7962.29
2005-2006: 7602.80
2004-2005: 7022.95
2003-2004: 6240.95</p>
<p>Source: [Archival</a> Registration Fees](<a href=“http://reg.ucsc.edu/Fees/Reg_Fees_archive/index.html]Archival”>Previous Years' Registration Fees)</p>
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<p>Emphasis mine. Granted, it’s not a guarantee, but a large of portion of us already had our financial aid packages adjusted several weeks ago in anticipation of this fee increase.</p>
<p>Source: [University</a> of California - UC Newsroom | Regents approve fee increases](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22415]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22415)</p>
<p>SteslaS: It’s a program that helps pay for tuition for low income families.
[UC</a> Blue and Gold Opportunity](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/blueandgold/]UC”>Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan | UC Admissions)</p>
<p>EDIT: Wow, the baseline fee is rather low on the UC’s website.</p>
<p>2009-2010: $8,700</p>
<p>Source: [University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/payingforuc/costs.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/payingforuc/costs.html)</p>
<p>Searching for archival fees for the other campuses right now, I doubt many of them stayed that close to the $8,700 even before the approved fee increases.</p>
<p>EDIT2: Score. Found UCLA’s.</p>
<p>[UCLA</a> Registrar’s Office: Archives](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/archive/)</p>
<p>2008-2009: $9,669.50
2007-2008: $8,967.50
2006-2007: $8,285.50
2005-2006: $8,109.50
2004-2005: $7,468.50
2003-2004: $6,317.50
(the records go back much further, though)</p>
<p>^
[UCOP</a> VP Budget Office](<a href=“http://budget.ucop.edu/fees.html]UCOP”>http://budget.ucop.edu/fees.html)</p>
<p>Shows fees all the way back to 1996</p>
<p>and here a chart showing back until 1990</p>
<p><a href=“http://ucwatch.org/images/affordable_feeschart.jpg[/url]”>http://ucwatch.org/images/affordable_feeschart.jpg</a></p>
<p>Overall is under $70k really low income?
My families makes about 50k and I always assume I was middle class and I live in SF…</p>
<p>Overall is under $70k really low income?
Depends where and how you live, how big your family is, etc.</p>
<p>Disposable income is the most important.</p>
<p>Awesome. And just found the Berkeley archives too. Sneaky little devils who made the charts made it look like it’s not that much, but they only show the “per semester” cost so you have to remember to double it for some of the older files and add the fall and spring costs together when they start being different a few years ago.</p>
<p>[Fee</a> Schedule Archive - Office Of The Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Registration/feeschedarch.html]Fee”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Registration/feeschedarch.html)</p>
<p>Low income does not mean low class. Please do not lump those two together, it’s insulting.</p>
<p>And rpicton took the words right out of my mouth about what is considered low income. Thank you :)</p>
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Good point</p>
<p>The UC is still a bargain compared to most.</p>
<p>I don’t think the tuition is the entire problem, it is only the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>The problem is that the UC system is being dismantled. The schools are losing funding, cutting classes, cutting staff, and losing the most prestigious professors. The fact is that the UC system will not remain world class education if this keeps going. They will not remain competitive with the privates.</p>
<p>And what if my family’s income is a little above 70K but when I go to UC it will be lower since I would not be able to work full time? My husbands income is only 52,000 plus he is still paying out his student loans. We would not be able to pay the full price of the tuition.</p>
<p>ksForBerkeley: You can talk to the financial aid department and request a review of your financial aid package if it is not significant enough due to a change in income. They’re really quite nice (from what I have experienced) at most of the campuses and willing to work with you :).</p>
<p>thank you! I really hope they will be able to adjust my financial aid, otherwise I would not be able to pay for my education.</p>
<p>actually low income does mean lower class. From a sociological prospective, there is the capitalist class, the upper middle, the lower middle, the working class, the working poor, and the underclass. It’s all based on wealth mostly, but according to many it should be based on power, property, and prestige…none of which a lower class person has. Do not confuse the word class with sophistication, that is a fallacy.</p>
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