More than 10,000 students have been placed on waiting lists for admission into UC campuses, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Of the 82,056 California applicants to UC, 71.6% were offered freshman entrance to at least one of UC's nine undergraduate campuses. That was down from 72.5% last year and 75.4% the year before, reflecting in part cutbacks in enrollment due to state budget reductions, the figures show.
Applicants to UCLA and UC Berkeley once again had the hardest time. UCLA accepted only 21% of in-state applicants, compared to 21.4% last year, and UC Berkeley admitted 24.5%, down from 29.5% last year. The next toughest were UC San Diego, 36.8%; UC Santa Barbara, 41.7%; UC Davis, 44.5%; UC Irvine 45.4%; UC Santa Cruz, 64.9%; UC Riverside, 77.4%; and UC Merced, 78%.
And in other college news: Two women were arrested at San Francisco State University after a failed attempt to take over the university's Cesar Chavez Student Center. The women, who are not students, were among a group of 19 people who tried to break into the campus building about 4 a.m, a university spokeswoman said.
The protest was in response to fines that were leveled as part of misconduct charges against 11 students involved in a two-day protest in December in which activists barricaded themselves inside the business school to protest fee hikes, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
