{"id":382444,"date":"2010-03-02T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f54e28e970c"},"modified":"2010-03-02T18:09:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:09:56","slug":"uc-berkeley-joins-other-uc-campuses-in-starting-freshman-waiting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382444","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley joins other UC campuses in starting freshman waiting list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">UC Berkeley will join six other University of California\u00a0campuses in compiling a waiting list for freshman admissions this month, officials said. Previously, UC Berkeley had said it was studying whether to use the backup lists, which are a\u00a0break with UC tradition but are being adopted this year to help campuses better hit their enrollment targets during the\u00a0budget crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">Of UC\u2019s nine undergraduate campuses, only UCLA and UC Merced have decided against using the\u00a0lists. A UC Berkeley spokesperson said that admissions acceptances, denials and wait list notifications all will be posted online\u00a0March 25. The school expects\u00a0its list to be\u00a0relatively small, about 200 students. Other campuses also are scheduled to notify applicants of various decisions by the end of the month. <\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">Landing a spot on a waiting list means a student may\u00a0have a chance of acceptance if space becomes available, although\u00a0at many colleges,\u00a0relatively few students ever move from the lists to actual enrollment. Some high school counselors have complained that waiting lists simply\u00a0extend the tension of the college application season and take\u00a0students\u2019 focus away from the schools they probably will attend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">&#8212; Larry Gordon<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley will join six other University of California\u00a0campuses in compiling a waiting list for freshman admissions this month, officials said. Previously, UC Berkeley had said it was studying whether to use the backup lists, which are a\u00a0break with UC tradition but are being adopted this year to help campuses better hit their enrollment targets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}