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My daughter got rejected from one of the UC. They received 130+k application for 6k openings.

analog31 4y ago
The acceptance ratio is a poor measure, because applying to multiple schools is easy. Likewise, I first remember skyrocketing ratios of applicants to job openings when laser printers became ubiquitous. In between college versus apprenticeship, students could apply for both and then pick the one that seems like the best deal.
Ericson2314 4y ago
YIMBYism in California has been and will continue to be about expanding the schools (and not just building new ones in bumbfuck) a lot.
killjoywashere 4y ago
Yeah, the UC's application system is a bit ... disingenuous is the wrong word, but it's a win-win for applicants and colleges: all the applicant has to do is check all the boxes and pay the not-terrible application fees and bam, they've applied to all the schools. This pretty much forces all the students to apply to most, if not all, of the campuses. Which gives every UC campus the maximum possible applicant pool.
- ghaff 4y ago
  Unless evaluating the applications is centralized, I'm not sure it's a great win for schools. As someone who has been on the conference committee for quite a few events, I often think that having some friction or even strict limits to submitting a proposal isn't the worst thing in the world. In theory, you want the widest possible pool. In practice, each proposal/application takes some time to evaluate and, especially given conferences obviously don't have quantitative filters like GPA or SAT, picking the best 50 sessions out of a few hundred is generally a lot less random than picking the best 50 out of 2,000.
999900000999 4y ago
I'll guess ether Berkeley or UCLA? That's why you apply to more than one. Even the Cal States aren't bad schools, you can get a quality education at a fraction of the price.
david927 4y ago
Someone in this thread wrote this: "California Universities just had the most applications in history. UCLA 145k applicants, UCSD 130k applicants. Respectively they are both down now to about a 3% and 5% acceptance rate due to the spike. Might be Covid holdovers due to a gap year, or with the economy as it is, out of state applications have dropped." If it's true, that's crazy. Up until this year, I think the lowest acceptance rate was Princeton at 3.9%.

The acceptance ratio is a poor measure, because applying to multiple schools is easy. Likewise, I first remember skyrocketing ratios of applicants to job openings when laser printers became ubiquitous. In between college versus apprenticeship, students could apply for both and then pick the one that seems like the best deal.

Ericson2314 4y ago

YIMBYism in California has been and will continue to be about expanding the schools (and not just building new ones in bumbfuck) a lot.

killjoywashere 4y ago

Yeah, the UC's application system is a bit ... disingenuous is the wrong word, but it's a win-win for applicants and colleges: all the applicant has to do is check all the boxes and pay the not-terrible application fees and bam, they've applied to all the schools. This pretty much forces all the students to apply to most, if not all, of the campuses. Which gives every UC campus the maximum possible applicant pool.

ghaff 4y ago
Unless evaluating the applications is centralized, I'm not sure it's a great win for schools. As someone who has been on the conference committee for quite a few events, I often think that having some friction or even strict limits to submitting a proposal isn't the worst thing in the world. In theory, you want the widest possible pool. In practice, each proposal/application takes some time to evaluate and, especially given conferences obviously don't have quantitative filters like GPA or SAT, picking the best 50 sessions out of a few hundred is generally a lot less random than picking the best 50 out of 2,000.

999900000999 4y ago

I'll guess ether Berkeley or UCLA? That's why you apply to more than one. Even the Cal States aren't bad schools, you can get a quality education at a fraction of the price.

david927 4y ago

Someone in this thread wrote this: "California Universities just had the most applications in history. UCLA 145k applicants, UCSD 130k applicants. Respectively they are both down now to about a 3% and 5% acceptance rate due to the spike. Might be Covid holdovers due to a gap year, or with the economy as it is, out of state applications have dropped." If it's true, that's crazy. Up until this year, I think the lowest acceptance rate was Princeton at 3.9%.