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UC Berkeley students walk by Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus April 17, 2007

The number of California residents intending to enroll in UC Berkeley's freshman class has dropped by 21 percent from just two years ago, according to new data released by the University of California system Thursday. There are 1,000 fewer resident freshman in the incoming class, the data shows, a sign of how budget cuts are affecting admissions decisions at the state's premier university.

This year, California residents make up 70.2% of Berkeley's freshman class, while out of state students and international students respectively comprise 18.4 % and 11.4% of first-years. (Scroll down for charts.)

Berkeley admitted almost three times as many out-of-state students this year as it did in 2009. No other campus admitted as many non-residents, but UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, and UC Irvine offered admission to more international students.

Across the nine campuses, the number of out-of-state and international students intending to enroll as freshmen has more than doubled--to 12% -- since 2009. Those students will pay $22,000 more in tuition and fees than California residents, and the UC system is increasingly relying on that extra revenue to make up for some of the money it has lost as a result of state budget cuts.

"The campuses admitted as many California residents as they had state funding for," said Pamela Burnett, Interim Director of Admissions for the UC Office of the President.

Under the new state budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown, a UC alumnus, signed Thursday, the UC sytem will lose $650 million in funding--$150 million more than it expected earlier this year. According to U.C. President Mark Yudof, the latest cuts mean UC will most likely have to raise tuition again.

Currently, out-of-students comprise 6% of all University undergraduates. UC’s Commission on the Future has suggested capping that number of 10%. According to Burnett, "It will take us some years to reach that 10% recommended cap. We are not concerned that it will be in the foreseeable future."

The racial and ethnic makeup of students at Berkeley and throughout the UC system continues to shift. For the first time, there are about as many Latino resident freshmen as whites. The percentage of incoming Latino resident freshmen is the highest in the history of the UC system.

The number of Latino freshman in the UC system has increased to 26 percent of the total, up from almost 21 percent in 2009. In that same time period, the percentage of white students has dropped from 31 percent to 26 percent.

At Riverside and Merced, Latinos make up more than 40 percent of incoming freshmen. At Cal, UCLA, Irvine, Davis, San Diego, Asian-American students represent the largest proportion of students. And at Irvine and UC San Diego, Asian Americans comprise more than half of the incoming class.

Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz remain the whitest UC campuses, and are the only schools where there are more white freshman than Asian Americans or Latinos.