Nonresident students pay about three times the tuition paid by California residents, whose education is subsidized by the state.
“Our campuses really had no choice but to reduce enrollment of California resident students commensurate with their funding,” Wilbur said. “As a public university with a strong commitment to California, it's difficult even painful to turn away so many high achieving students who have worked so hard for so many years to earn a space at the University of California.”
The admitted freshman applicants were 37 percent Asian, 32 percent White, 25 percent Latino, 4 percent African-American and 1 percent Native American. Fifty-six percent were female, and 44 percent were male.
