HONORS STUDENTS ALL IN AT UCLA 61% OF AVC PUPILS OK'D.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. students are finding favor with the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , AVC officials said. UCLA officials have told community college representatives that 100 percent of AVC's Honors Program students and 61 percent of AVC students overall applying to the university have been accepted this year. ``This is the largest ratio of acceptance to UCLA from AVC to date,'' said Dr. Lee Grishman, Transfer Center coordinator. Grishman noted that Santa Monica College Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately has long advertised the number of its students who go on to UCLA. In sheer numbers, Santa Monica College still leads AVC, but Santa Monica's rate of transfers to UCLA is only 44.3 percent, according to Grishman. ``This reinforces what we have been saying about the quality of education that students receive at Antelope Valley College,'' said President Jackie Fisher Sr. ``Students can complete their first two years here and then go on to top universities. Students get a quality education and they save money.'' The announcement comes as California State University Enrollment  and University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). campuses are redirecting thousands of freshmen to complete their first two years at community college campuses. Grishman said it is too early to tell if the increased number of AVC students admitted to UCLA is the start of a trend. UCLA and the University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State , are the two primary UC campuses for AVC transfers, according to Grishman. No statistics on AVC student admissions to UCSB are available yet for this year. |
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