Has UCSD forgotten that it's a public entity? State auditor says UC admitting more students from out of state as its in-state admissions dropped

UC San Diego Saw Sharpest Increase In Out-Of-State Students
Monday, April 4, 2016
By Megan Burks
Aired 4/4/16 on KPBS News

A state audit says the University of California has been admitting more students from out of state as its in-state admissions dropped. Of the campuses offering fewer spots to Californians, UC San Diego had the sharpest increase in out-of-state students.

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Christopher Yanov of Reality Changers has been working to get San Diego students with low socio-economic backgrounds into college over the past five years. This March brought him a first.
A student with a 5.0 grade point average and good SAT scores received rejection letters from all four of the University of California campuses to which he applied, Yanov said.

"What else does somebody have to do besides have a 5.0 GPA, a good story, and a lot of community involvement?" Yanov said. "That's a tough message to have to deliver — that he couldn't have done anything else."

The four UC campuses where the student applied — San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Berkeley — are behind an admissions trend that caught the attention of the state auditor last month. In a scathing report released Tuesday, she said the University of California has been admitting more students from out of state as its in-state admissions dropped.

Those campuses are the only ones to recruit more out-of-staters while offering fewer spots to Californians.

UC San Diego had the sharpest increase in out-of-state students, climbing 126 percent between 2010 and 2015. It cut in-state freshman admissions by nearly 3,000 students in that time, and added about 3,600 out-of-state students, according to the audit.

State Auditor Elaine Howle argues more out-of-state students, who pay about three times what resident students pay, should have meant funding for more Californians, not fewer. And she suggests students coming from other states aren't as qualified as locals, because they aren't held to the same admissions standards...