A third of students who were admitted but did not enroll in CSU, enrolled in UC
Source: Authors' calculations using National Student Clearinghouse (CCC match) and CSU student-level application data.
NOTES: Based on 131,883 students who were admitted to at least one CSU campus but did not enroll in CSU. One limitation of the NSC data is record blocking. Records can be blocked by the student (i.e., under FERPA the student indicates that they do not want their college records to be disclosed) or less commonly by the school. Typically, this proportion is approximately 10 percent. Since individual students with blocked records are not identified, they cannot be distinguished from students who truly did not enroll in another four-year institution. This means that there is a proportion of students who did enroll (and possibly earned a degree) that show up as “no record found” in the NSC data. We have NSC data through fall 2023, so it is possible that some “no record found” students have enrolled after that. In this figure "no record found" = Did not enroll in a four-year institution.