Even though our education system got more than we asked for, you can see the that the students today are feeling the recession take its toll. It has been reported that college admissions have been cut down, for example University of California San Diego was rumored to have only admitted 9% of applicants, whereas last year it was 40%. Many students are resorting to community colleges and then transferring after their general education, lowering the transfer rate in a few years. So freshmen acceptance rates are down, transfer rates will be down in a few years, what's happening to our higher education system? We need those funds to enter the system and we need it now.
The graphs above were obtained by me when I went to interview our own HLPUSD district's resource manager Gary Matsumoto and Norman Hsu. As you guys can probably tell, our district is actually holding out okay, but it is due to the large amount of stowed away savings HLPUSD has, that's why much of our school functions are still performing, unlike many others whereas teachers are being laid off left and right, classrooms are jam-packed, and resources are running low.
But we can only last a year or 2, maybe 3, like the graphs above said, with cuts, we can stay afloat a little longer, our students can have a comfortable education for a little longer. Because of our savings, we don't have to lay off as many teachers, even though they will have to divert some of the financial resources to other places from projects, so things will be moving around, until the Title 1 105.9 billion dollars comes.
Until then, we will just have to wait for the Cavalry. Until then, college acceptances will be more competitve, since it won't have enough resources to admit the normal rate of students before the recession hit. Although the Private Colleges will not undergo much acceptance rate changes since they are privately funded, not like UCs, where they are funded by the state. Many LAHS and perhaps students around the state and nation are on the verge of tears, seeing previous generations enter college only to have them shut the door in their faces. Seeing how 2009 is, is 2010 going to be worse for our siblings and the generations after us?
President Obama, is help really on the way?
6 comments:
Oh I'm pretty happy about this bro.
im pretty happy i got accepted to mt sac.
dats duhh fudd'd up,
yeah its all their fault! we sure did a lot.
Yes, I have also been affected by the low acceptance rates at my goal schools. When will this problem be fixed and what does the future of college acceptances look like a decade from now? I'm sure the colleges are also declining in state applicants and prioritizing the out of state students in order for them to collect more tuition.
Why did it have to happen this year?
i've heard that this year has the largest graduating class in the nation. last year was pretty large and competition rates continue to go up.
i'm disappointed but not surprised at the fact that colleges give out of state people more priority because state revenues are being cut left and right. but who in the world would want to pay 45K to go to the lowest ranked UC/cal state when their own state school is far cheaper and probably offer the same programs if not better?
the price for higher education is ridiculous and the state first screws over young people by cutting down funding.
but of course people complain about competition because many are applying to the more popular schools. getting into college is easy, it just depends on which college people choose to apply to. not many people want to apply to universities in middle america where acceptance rates are 75% or higher because of ranking, location, programs offered, etc. more and more people are applying to UCs because you can get that ivy league level education for a public school price. the problem is that everyone seems to apply there so competition increases. sad but true.
It is very possible that next year could be even worse than what it is this year. Even with the stimulus package, the recession is still going to be in effect. This means that schools still have to watch how much they spend and how many they accept. I would not be surprised if even less people make it into public colleges a year or so from now. But our nation really only has so much to give.
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