In Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget plan for next year, he has suggested that community college students who complete required coursework and meet a specified grade point average would earn automatic admission to the University of California, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The plan would result in a huge increase in transfer admissions to UCLA, presumably at the expense of some of the 149,000 annual applicants to UCLA, more applicants than to any other single college in the country.
The plan has supporters, but also critics. Much of the questioning of the plan is focused on the fact that it applies only to UCLA, and not to the UC campuses at Berkeley and San Diego, which also lack a guaranteed admission program for transfer students.
