Interview 69: Vincent Garcia on “What is going on with the UC’s and admissions this year?”
What’s going on with the UC’s and CSU’s:
- Vince gives his backstory
- We talk about how rigor matters, and some of the ways it is evaluated
- We discuss the growth of applications at UC; were they mostly from in or out of state?
- We talk about how major matters and we talk about how the college you apply to matters at UC’s
- Vince talks about how some UC’s prioritize students coming from their backyard, over those coming from other parts of the state
- Vince shares the Community college pipeline to California universities
- We talk about which UC’s students have the best chance of being admitted at
- We discuss the yield of the UC’s and how this impacts the wait list
- We turn to the CSU’s and Vince talks about why their admission experience was so different from the CU’s
- Vince shares some areas where the CSU’s have outstanding programs
- Vince reveals his list of underrated CSU’s and UC universities (Length 55:05)