Weird Theory About UCs

SFS_Rules
Sun, 04 May 2014 14:17:01 +0000

Highly unlikely for the foreseeable future. A factor affecting each UC’s admissions rate can be attributed to duplicate applications… that is 1-student applicant applying to multiple campuses.

The number of CA student frosh AND transfer applicants hasn’t changed much from 2012-2014 (roughly 93k, 99k, 99k and roughly 29k, 29k, 29k respectively). However, international frosh and transfer applicants have increased (19k, 21k, 26k and 20k, 22k, 27k respectively). Out-of-state frosh has also increased (19k, 21k, 26k), but transfer applicants have remained relatively steady (1k, ~900, ~900). So unless there’s a drastic increase in the number of applicants, the creation of a new UC is very unlikely… it took 40-years before Merced was added to the UC system.

Additionally, should the number of applicants reach critical-mass for arguments to create another UC campus, the Cal-State system exists for the influx of students. The Cal-State system would also have to experience the same dilemma, or there must be enough political-will to justify a new UC campus instead of utilizing the Cal-State schools. Just because students do not want to attend a Cal-State is not grounds for the creation of another UC.