Editing University of California (section)

=== Admissions practices ===
[[File:Lawn - University of California, Davis - DSC03312 (cropped).JPG|thumb|Mrak Hall serves as the administrative seat of UC Davis.]]
In many recent years, the University of California has faced growing criticism for high admissions of out-of-state or international students as opposed to in-state, California students. In particular, UC Berkeley and UCLA have been heavily criticized for this phenomenon due to their extraordinarily low acceptance rates compared to other campuses in the system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-audit-admissions-20160328-story.html |title=UC schools harm local students by admitting so many from out of state, audit finds |first=Teresa |last=Watanabe |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 29, 2016 |access-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-date=December 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231073331/https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-audit-admissions-20160328-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> At a Board of Regents meeting in 2015, California Governor [[Jerry Brown]] reportedly said about the problem: "And so you got your foreign students and you got your 4.0 folks, but just the kind of ordinary, normal students, you know, that got good grades but weren't at the top of the heap there—they're getting frozen out."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/gov-brown-says-normal-californians-cant-get-berkeley-problem-some-californians-blame |title=Gov. Brown says 'normal' Californians can't get into Berkeley, a problem some Californians blame on Brown |website=Inside Higher Ed |date=January 22, 2015 |first=Ry |last=Rivard |access-date=December 30, 2018 |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622232337/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/gov-brown-says-normal-californians-cant-get-berkeley-problem-some-californians-blame |url-status=live }}</ref> State lawmakers have proposed legislation that would reduce out-of-state admission.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Michael |title=Legislators crafting deal to reduce numbers of out-of-state students at University of California |url=https://edsource.org/2021/legislators-crafting-deal-to-reduce-numbers-of-out-of-state-students-at-university-of-california/655522 |access-date=May 23, 2022 |website=EdSource |language=en |date=May 28, 2021 |archive-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603021509/https://edsource.org/2021/legislators-crafting-deal-to-reduce-numbers-of-out-of-state-students-at-university-of-california/655522 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A 2020 California [[auditor's report]] indicated that at least 64 wealthy students were wrongfully admitted to UC schools as favors to powerful figures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=State Auditor: UC Wrongly Admitted Well-Connected Students, 55 at Berkeley |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11839078/state-auditor-uc-wrongly-admitted-well-connected-students-42-at-berkeley |access-date=May 23, 2022 |website=KQED |language=en-us |date=September 22, 2020 |first1=Jocelyn |last1=Gecker |first2=Juliet |last2=Williams |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523204353/https://www.kqed.org/news/11839078/state-auditor-uc-wrongly-admitted-well-connected-students-42-at-berkeley |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Watanabe |first=Teresa |date=September 22, 2020 |title=UC admitted 64 well-connected or rich students over more qualified ones, audit finds |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-22/uc-fails-prevent-admissions-fraud-state-audit |access-date=May 23, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523204353/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-22/uc-fails-prevent-admissions-fraud-state-audit |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gross |first=Elana Lyn |title=The University Of California System 'Unfairly' Admitted 64 Well-Connected Students, State Audit Found |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/09/22/the-university-of-california-system-unfairly-admitted-64-well-connect-student-state-audit-found/ |access-date=May 23, 2022 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523204353/https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/09/22/the-university-of-california-system-unfairly-admitted-64-well-connect-student-state-audit-found/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Many of the admissions were justified by falsely classifying the applicants as student athletes. The incidents disproportionately (55 of 64) occurred at [[UC Berkeley]].