【立委按】全世界公立大学的大哥大伯克利加大可能是最为国人熟悉的公立美国名校，是很多人的梦想。伯克利加大由于政府补贴的减少（富可敌国的加州，前几年州政府债台高筑，濒于破产，无力顾及教育，教育经费不增反减），财政逐步吃紧，不得不收紧本州招生，扩大外州和国际学生的比例。因为公立大学对于外地学生所收的学费远远高出本地：本州学生在近几年大幅调涨以后的学费才一万二千美元，而外州和国际学生则需缴纳三四万美金（大约比私立大学便宜一万多，美国私立大学的学费本地外地一律四五万美金，唯一不同是，很多助学金的申请不对国际学生开放）。这一改变，外地欢喜本州愁，是国际学生的福音。今年两所最牛的加大名校，加大伯克利（UCB）和加大洛杉矶（UCLA) 本州录取均创下新低。身边就见到很多非常优秀的孩子被拒。 5月1日是加大今年錄取生決定所選學校的限期，但無論被錄取者選擇那一所加大分校，今秋能夠入讀加大的本州生人數都比前減少，因為今年符合入學資格而又被加大拒絕入學的人數打破了紀錄。 單單以位於中谷的麥賽德加大而言，今年就有1萬1183名符合資格的申請者，因為被柏克萊加大、洛杉磯加大、聖地牙哥加大和聖他芭芭拉加大等所拒，再轉給麥賽德加大。麥賽德加大建於2005年，是最年輕的加大分校。 柏克萊加大今年的本州生錄取率跌至13.5%（1996年為40%），洛杉磯加大也跌至16.3%（1996年為43%），其他加大分校今年錄取的本州生比例都比以前大為下降。 本州生錄取比例大降，反映出加州學生越來越難入讀加大；資料顯示，1994年時加大的本州生比例占了96%，但2012年已減至86%。 與本州生競爭的是外國學生和外州生，1994年加大的外國學生只占1%，但2012年增至8%，1994年外州生只占3%，但2012年增至6%。 高中成績和SAT成績好，再加上一連串的出色活動，現在已不能保證入讀柏克萊加大；由於申請者眾，而錄取率又低，柏克萊加大今年拒絕的學生人數竟然比史丹福拒絕的人數還多了2萬人；史丹福今年的錄取率只有5.1%，成為全美最低。 外國學生和外州生繳交的學費是本州生的三倍，為增加收入，以維持學校的競爭力，柏克萊加大於2012年所收的外國學生和外州生比前增加了三倍，在該年的5070名大一新生中，占了1150人。 柏克萊校長德克斯上月已表示，該校的外州生和外國學生還會增加，將由今年的20%增至23%。本州生今年的學費為1.3萬元，而外州生和外國學生則是3.6萬元。 原文： ［世界日报］柏克萊本州生錄取率 降至13.5% 圣荷西水星报 By Katy Murphy kmurphy@bayareanewsgroup.com The promise of an elite public university education for California’s top high school students continues to fade as record numbers of qualified in-state applicants are being rejected from every UC campus they applied to. Admission rates at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara have plummeted to less than half of what they were in the mid-1990s, a new analysis by this newspaper shows. This year, 11,183 freshman applicants who qualified for UC admission had no offers from their chosen campuses and were referred to UC Merced, the Central Valley campus that opened in 2005. Some strove mightily and successfully in high school but found their aspirations opened few doors. Student tour guide and Cal senior Sam Kirschner, right, leads a tour group past South Hall for students that have been accepted to the University of California in Berkeley, Calif. on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Kirschner, originally from Louisville, CO, but now a California resident, is part of the trend to accept greater numbers of out-of-state students at the university. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group) (Kristopher Skinner) Aman Shergill — an A student who juggled an after-school job with a boatload of Advanced Placement classes and extracurricular activities — applied to seven UC campuses and got into one: UC Santa Cruz. “It was within two weeks that I got all my rejections. It was pretty bad,” the Folsom teen said. “I just thought that with what I had done and all my hard work, I was hoping for a little more.” Every year, more college-bound Californians feel the sting of rejection as spaces for the state’s college-bound students lag further behind the soaring demand for Cal and other popular UC campuses. The ease of applying to many campuses online, the relatively low sticker price for in-state students compared to private colleges and population growth have radically changed the outlook for applicants. Growing numbers of out-of-state and international students, who pay nearly three times the tuition and fees, also fuel the competition for a spot in the class. By Thursday, students must make the difficult decision about where to go in August. UC Berkeley gave thousands of fall applicants another option to consider: Wait until the spring term for a spot, when graduating students free up more space. The options are more limited than parents and educators from past generations might assume, one expert said. “Students need to be exposed to the truth,” said Lisa Garcia, director of outreach projects for USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education. “I tell all my students, even the valedictorians, ‘You can’t just apply to Berkeley and (UCLA) and San Diego and Santa Barbara.’” Excellent grades, solid SAT scores and a long list of activities these days might not be enough to get you noticed by Cal, which turned away some 20,000 more applicants this year than Stanford, the nation’s most selective campus. Berkeley’s admitted class, as described in a campus announcement, included national robotics and debate winners, “a ballerina who has danced internationally,” Junior Olympics athletes, a Disney Channel series actor and “musicians, dancers and other artists who have performed at prestigious venues around the world.”
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