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Originally Posted by Football Fan
Examples of application numbers for branches of the University of California:
Freshman Applicants Only for Entering in Fall of 2014
Univ. of California at Santa Cruz--40,617 applicants
Univ. of California at Irvine--60,476
Univ. of California at Santa Barbara--66, 756
Univ. of California at San Diego--73,437 (Sought after for strong science and math programs)
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Ahh - you left out UCLA (and Berkeley, I guess). UCLA has long had the highest number of applicants of any university in the nation, and this year had more than 86,000 freshman applicants for 6,000 spots. An additional 19,000 applied for transfer admission.
UCLA in-state tuition is nearly $13,000, aid money has been slashed in recent years, and residence halls cost more than $14,000 a year. I notice that Alabama's out-of-state tuition is comparable to the University of California in-state tuition, and residence hall costs are about 1/3 the cost.
I'm not surprised that there's a major glut of really well qualified California students who can't get into or can't afford UC schools, and might prefer to go to a flagship out-of-state school rather than stay local and attend a Cal State.