{"id":181737,"date":"2016-03-30T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/30\/so-not-a-surprise-29\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T01:08:00","slug":"so-not-a-surprise-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/30\/so-not-a-surprise-29\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the University of California was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Audit-shows-UC-admission-standards-relaxed-for-7215364.php\">preferentially admitting out of state students because they wanted the higher out of state tuition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The University of California has been admitting thousands of students from out of state with lower grades and test scores than state residents as a way to raise cash, a state audit released Tuesday reveals.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the last three years, nearly 16,000 nonresident undergraduates \u2014 about 29 percent of those admitted \u2014 have won spots at the coveted public university with grade-point averages and scores below the median of admitted Californians, according to the 116-page audit. The report criticizes university practices it says undermine state residents\u2019 access to UC in favor of nonresidents, who pay about three times the basic tuition and fees of in-state students: $38,108 versus $13,400.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The state\u2019s Master Plan for Higher Education says UC should admit only nonresidents who are at least as qualified as the \u201cupper half of residents who are eligible for admission,\u201d according to the report from State Auditor Elaine Howle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But in 2011, UC changed that threshold so that nonresidents only had to \u201ccompare favorably\u201d with residents, the audit notes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what you get when you chronically underfund public higher education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the University of California was preferentially admitting out of state students because they wanted the higher out of state tuition: The University of California has been admitting thousands of students from out of state with lower grades and test scores than state residents as a way to raise cash, a state audit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,970,968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corruption","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}