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SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (UPI) -- The University of California is considering raising its admissions standards after learning that 14 percent of the state's high school seniors were eligible.
The system's Board of Regents will consider raising the academic bar when it meets in July.
The board chirped in a press release Wednesday that new statistics showed California kids were "working hard and excelling at the level needed to achieve UC eligibility." However it also noted the state master education plan limits UC eligibility to 12 percent.
Regent John Moores groused to the San Francisco Chronicle that figures proved his point that too many average students were sneaking into the UC system when they would be better off honing their modest skills at the community college level.
He said the current academic standards amount to thousands of extra students seeking admission at a time of "fiscal austerity" in California.
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