The University of California schools, which are not test-optional but instead test-blind, will not be using any standardized test in its admissions process now or apparently ever in the future. After eliminating the SAT and ACT from the decision-making process, UC faculty were tasked with determining if an alternative to …
The battle over the consideration of SAT or ACT scores in the University of California admissions process is brewing. A few weeks back, we reported on a letter that was sent by certain groups, including the Compton Unified School District, College Access Plan, College Seekers, Community Coalition, the Dolores Huerta …
The University of California offered admission to a record number of applicants to its nine undergraduate campuses this year. In all, 108,178 students were offered admission to the UC schools for the 2019-2020 academic year. These students were drawn from a pool of 176,695 applicants — to Cal, UCLA, UCSD, …
In the wake of the college admissions bribery and cheating scandal, California lawmakers have advanced a bill that aims to eliminate admission by exception in the University of California and California State University systems — which is admission without the approval of three administrators. Currently, it’s possible for students to …
We’ve been saying for quite some time on the pages of this college admissions blog that it’s easier to earn admission to the University of California schools for out-of-state residents than it is for California residents. And why’s that? Because the University of California loves their tuition dollars, with out-of-staters …
This year, the University of California system, which could lose 500 million dollars in funding next year, accepted much more out of state applicants this admissions cycle than in previous years. How will out of state applicants help the state’s notorious budget crisis? Out of state students in the UC …
