In-state students getting squeezed out at public universities - Timothy Pratt The Hechinger Report

In her 18 years as a counselor at California high schools, Kirsten Barnes has seen hundreds of seniors apply for college. But few were as qualified as this one. The student had a near-perfect grade point average, took the maximum number of advanced placement classes, joined extracurricular clubs and was in the National Honor Society. But the University of California at Berkeley turned her down."I thought, 'Wow, a couple of years ago, she would've gotten in,'" said Barnes, who works at Hanford West, a Central Valley high school. Barnes and other counselors have seen the public University of California system steadily enroll more out-of-state and international students, while the number of in-state students are declining. Coveted for the higher tuition they pay, the number of non-resident students enrolled at the University of California's 10 campuses rose from 23,000 in 2009 to 32,000 in 2012 -- an increase of nearly 33 PERCENT. Meanwhile, the number of in-state students has fallen 1.3 percent to 197,000. http://www.click2houston.com/news/money/In-state-students-getting-squeezed-out-at-public-universities/26453602