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This is especially true in California, where additional campuses have been added at great cost, & are still outpaced by population growth. And large numbers of students (and their parents) still want to get into UCLA and UC Berkeley as freshmen rather than any other UC campus.
If it were not for the desire to maintain some kind of diversity, UC could populate its entire freshman class with the top 1% of high school applicants (last time I read up on it — I’m sure one of our persistent fact checkers will be along to let me know if I got it wrong 
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