UC Regents to Cut Enrollment?

leeivyca
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:56:28 +0000

There was an item in the news today:

[UC regents vote to shrink undergraduate enrollment](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/14/state/n114217S10.DTL&tsp=1)

UC regents vote to shrink undergraduate enrollment

… Under the plan approved Wednesday, the freshmen enrollment target would be reduced from 37,600 in 2008-09 to 35,300 in 2009-2010. Enrollment would be cut at the Davis, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz campuses; remain the same at Berkeley and UCLA; and grow at Merced. …

Our son is applying to several UC’s but Davis seems like a good match for him. The proposed cuts do not look TOO deep – but somebody is going to get left out. Does anyone have any practical predictions on whether this would affect the chances for a kid with good SAT scores and nearly-straight-A’s who is interested in mechanical engineering?