By Frances Dinkelspiel : berkelyside – excerpt
Since not all admitted students enroll, Cal will now have to tell 5,000 high school seniors there’s no place for them at Berkeley in the fall.
The California Supreme Court has turned down UC Berkeley’s request to postpone a drastic cap on enrollment for the fall, meaning that Cal will need to cut its incoming class by 3,050 students next year. This means 5,000 fewer high schoolers will be offered admission this month than the university had hoped…
On Aug. 23, 2021, Alameda County Judge Brad Seligman ordered UC Berkeley to toss out the EIR it did for the Upper Hearst project and start anew. He also ordered the enrollment cap.
UC Berkeley appealed that decision first to the Court of Appeal and then to the California Supreme Court. Both appeals were denies.
The Court of Appeal is scheduled to hear oral arguments on the matter in the coming months. No date has been set yet.
UC Berkeley has not yet started to do a new EIR on the enrollment increases, according to Cal officials…(more)
We hope the case will be published soon so we can review the comments and reasoning behind the decision.