Mihai Gherghina sacrificed sleep, study time and Thanksgiving holiday
fun to make the application deadline for a long-cherished goal:
transfer to a UC campus. When he clicked the "submit" button Nov.
29, a day before the deadline, the Orange Coast College student said he
felt huge relief. But that emotion turned to fury when UC officials announced three
days later that they would extend the deadline to Jan. 4 for those who
missed it — but not those who made it, like Gherghina. The 26-year-old
student said he has learning disabilities and could have used the extra
time to hone his essay and burnish his application with another honors
program he subsequently learned he had been admitted to...
The deadline extension, the first in years, has created major buzz — and
decidedly mixed reactions — up and down the state. UC officials said
they extended the deadline to expand the pool of high-quality transfer
applicants needed to help fill the 5,000 additional seats being
earmarked for California students next year and 5,000 more over the
following two years. The expansion was approved last month by the UC
Board of Regents, which has come under political pressure to allot more
seats to Californians after years of increasing spaces for out-of-state
and international students who pay full tuition...
Full story at http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-transfer-20151214-story.html
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