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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Sept. 3, 2004
Hanan Eisenman (510) 587-6194
hanan.eisenman@ucop.edu
MEDIA ADVISORY
Freshman admission of GTO students
Below are preliminary data showing the numbers of applicants originally
offered a "Guaranteed Transfer Option" (GTO) who have accepted
an offer of freshman admission from each University of California undergraduate
campus in 2004-05.
More than 1,500 UC-eligible applicants who previously expected to come
to UC only through the community college route now have accepted the
offer to come to the university as freshmen this year. The response rate
is in line with the final 2004-05 state budget, which included a provision
of $12 million to allow roughly 1,550 GTO students to enroll at UC as
freshmen.
"
It is great news that so many additional students will be able to begin
their college careers at the University of California, as they originally
hoped," said Susan Wilbur, UC director of undergraduate admissions. "This
is a very good response rate, particularly given that it is late in the
year and many students in the GTO pool had already committed to other
institutions."
The response rate also is above the normal response rate for UC's "referral
pool." In a typical year, UC-eligible applicants not accepted by
the campuses to which they applied are offered freshman admission at
another campus with sufficient capacity. Last year, 10 percent of students
who received an offer through this referral process accepted it.
This year, the GTO process replaced the referral pool in large part,
and in the end, nearly 20 percent of applicants who were originally offered
GTO admission ultimately accepted freshman admission to one of eight
UC campuses. As a result, a larger proportion of applicants who were
not originally admitted as freshmen to their campus of choice nevertheless
ended up accepting admission to a campus in the UC system.
Currently, 298 students systemwide have opted to remain in the GTO program
and enroll at UC two years from now as juniors, despite the offer of
freshman admission to the same campus.
The official campus admission processes for GTO students are now complete.
The below numbers may change somewhat as a few final cases are resolved:
Campus
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Number of freshman admission offers to GTO students
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Number of GTO students who
accepted the freshman offer
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Berkeley
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282
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219
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Davis
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741
|
274
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Irvine
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1,088
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202
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UCLA
|
320
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248
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Riverside
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1,653
|
38
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San Diego
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149
|
78
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Santa Barbara
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188
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78
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Santa Cruz
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3,371
|
401
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Universitywide
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7,792
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1,538
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(Note: The number of offers and acceptances varies widely because
of the differing capacities of the campuses at the time these offers
were
made. Due to limited capacity, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego were
only able to offer freshman admission to those students who had already
accepted those campuses' original GTO offers. Some other campuses,
to different extents, were able to offer admission to students who
had accepted their GTO offer, to those who had declined it, and also
to those who had declined GTO offers from other UC campuses. UC Riverside's
relatively low acceptance rate reflects the fact that the campus did
not offer GTO to any UCR applicants, but ultimately offered freshman
admission to all applicants in the GTO pool who had not been offered
freshman admission to any other campus. In addition, UC Riverside in
April offered referral admission to 1,113 engineering applicants, 176
of whom accepted the freshman offer.)
Some of the freshman admission offers to applicants in the GTO pool were
made in April and May, mostly by UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz, two campuses
that had sufficient capacity to make the offer at that time. Of the 1,538
GTO students who have now accepted a freshman admission offer from UC,
641 came through that first process. The remainder of the freshman admission
offers came in August, after the final state budget agreement provided
for the freshman enrollment of GTO students who wished to come. Of the
1,538 accepting students, 897 came through this second process.
Students initially were given GTO offers -- offering a place at a UC
campus following the successful completion of a community college transfer
program -- after the Legislature indicated in the 2003-04 budget that
it would not provide funds for 2004-05 enrollment growth and the governor
further proposed a 10 percent enrollment reduction. With the final state
budget agreement, however, all students in the GTO pool who have maintained
their UC eligibility have now been offered a freshman spot at UC in the
coming academic year. Students may have received offers of fall, winter,
or spring enrollment depending upon the capacity of each campus.
UC estimates that it will enroll in 2004-05 about 500 more students overall
than it has received funding to enroll. Therefore, if the number of GTO
students enrolling as freshmen does not exactly match the 1,550 estimate
in the state budget, the remainder of the funding will be used to help
address the over-enrollment problem.
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