California Resident Students Deserve Recompense

California Resident Students Deserve Recompense

A $160,000 tax refund for every student that was wrongfully denied an "appropriate" seat within the UC system

The University of California denies 10,700 California resident students a year admission to a campus of their choice and instead offers them admission to UC Merced. These are California’s best and brightest students, who deserve admission to flagship schools like a UC Berkeley and UCLA. In fact state law guarantees that the California Legislature will fund a seat for every qualified California resident student at an "appropriate" campus based solely on merit.

According to the California Auditor and an LAO Report on Higher Education, 99.1% of the students offered UC Merced as their only option decline to enroll. This allows the UC to sell 10,700 seats per year to out of state and International students.

The UC’s manipulation of the referral pool to UC Merced is a fraud upon the public.

The Auditor felt the conduct of the University of California was so egregious that the California taxpayers deserved recompense.

"The university’s decision to increase nonresident enrollment at the expense of residents will have a long-lasting impact unless the Legislature and the university take steps to restore the university’s historic commitment to residents. These steps must not only ensure that the university prioritizes residents’ interests in the future but also repairs the damage that its past decisions have caused. In November 2015—during the course of our audit— the university committed to enrolling an additional 10,000 more residents over the next three fiscal years. However, the enrollment of 10,000 additional residents will not fully rectify the ramifications of its decision to admit nonresidents while referring or denying admission to more qualified resident applicants."

The State of California has failed to meet its Constitutional obligation to provide an "appropriate" seat for ALL California resident students who graduate from high school in the top 1/8th (12.5%) of their high school graduating class. The state Legislature and the UC Board of Regents had an obligation to take seriously the recommendations of the Auditor, and to implement new admissions policies which would give California resident students priority enrollment. Both the California Legislature and the UC Board of Regents failed to implement the Auditors recommendations and have allowed the Office of the President to continue to enroll greater and greater numbers of out-of-state and international students to the financial detriment of California taxpayers.

For the Class of 2020, the UC is only admitting California resident students on a Space Available Basis.

Source: University of California: Counselors

The Message to California Taxpayers and CA Resident Students

We want your money- but we don't want you!

The University of California is a taxpayer funded public land grant institution, and as such, California residents are to be given priority enrollment.

The University of California is a public trust, administered by “The Regents of the University of California,” with full powers of organization and government. The President of the University of California is not empowered to unilaterally set policies that discriminate against California resident students and violate state and federal law.

The UC Master Plan for Higher Education has an "Access Guarantee" that guarantees all First-Time Freshman admission to the University of California based solely on merit, as a matter of law.

A "First-Time Freshman" is a California resident student who graduated in the top 12.5% or (1/8th) of their high school graduating class, and is entering the UC directly from high school as a freshman in college.
The University of California has unjustly enriched itself at the expense of California taxpayers.
Each California resident student who was wrongfully denied admission should receive a check for $160,000.00.

BACKGROUND AND DATA
California Admissions Data Shows Institutional Raced Based Admissions and Discrimination Against California Resident Students: There needs to be a federal criminal investigation into the admissions policies and finances of the Office of the President of the University of Calif