A version of this article first appeared on EdSource.
More Californians are attending the University of California than ever before, and it’s partly because campuses with the lowest acceptance rates — UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego — have enrolled thousands of additional in-state students in recent years.
The University of California’s nine undergraduate campuses have sought to enroll more California students as part of an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom reached in 2022. Under what Newsom called a multiyear compact, he pledged annual increases of 5% in state funding if the university system worked toward meeting a series of goals, including increasing undergraduate enrollment of California residents…