California students half as likely to be admitted to UCSC as nonresidents – the widest gulf in the UC system
The Santa Cruz campus admitted 41 percent of a record-setting 45,737 freshman applicants from California, while admitting 80 percent of the 10,369 non-residents who live elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad, the data shows.
three primary factors,according to Michelle Whittingham, UCSC’s associate vice chancellor of enrollment management:
* A shift to prioritize transfer students to meet statewide targets,
* limited state funding,
* and UCSC’s progression toward becoming a more diverse and global campus.
More than 7,000 transfer applicants were offered admission for the fall, up 31 percent from last year and 37 percent from the year before, the data shows.
Those numbers put UCSC on track to meet the demands of Gov. Jerry Brown, who last year withheld $50 million in funds to pressure the UC to enroll one transfer student for every two freshmen across every campus except UC Merced.