The first-ever attendee cap was appended to the UC admissions policy March 6.

Loosely put, only twenty percent of UC students may be taken from a non-California resident pool, while the other eighty percent must come from the system’s home state.

This is a massive relief for Californian high schoolers who were previously concerned about the prospect of being accepted into their dream colleges; this fear stemmed from the staggering amount of out-of-state competition for the schools.

Similar admission caps are in place in several collegiate systems around the country, so many were angered that the UC system had no such cap in previous years. Lawmakers even threatened to lower school funding if the system did not instate a cap for the benefit of their own students.

Many alterations to the cap are already in place; some schools, like UCLA and and UC Berkeley, slightly exceed the cap, at 22.8% and 24.4%, respectively, while others are far below it, such as UC Merced with less than 1%. The latter camp can increase and decrease their amount freely as long as it never surpasses the systemwide 20% maximum.