Admission rates for freshman applicants at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara in 2014 were less than half of what they were in the mid-1990s, an analysis by this newspaper showed. At Berkeley, just 13.5 percent of California applicants who applied for a seat this past fall term were admitted, with another 5.3 percent given a spot in January.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27117331/uc-freshman-applications-hit-11th-straight-annual-record
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Keith Conning, Editor: When I graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in January 1959, anyone could enter the University of California with a "B" average. Of course, in those days a "B" was really a "B." Since then there has been grade inflation, so it is easier to get a "B" now than it was then.
"Grade inflation is the tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past. It is frequently discussed in relation to education in the United States, and to GCSEs and A levels in England and Wales. It is also an issue in Canada and other nations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation
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