The California State Supreme Court ordered the University Of California, Berkeley (Cal) undergraduate enrollment numbers at the 2020-2021 academic year which is 42,347 students for the upcoming 2022-2023 academic year on Mar 3, 2022. A proposed faculty housing and classroom construction project is suspended. Cal accepts 3,050 fewer students for the 2022-2023 academic year. A neighborhood group Save Berkely Neighborhoods sued Cal for failing to address additional housing, worsening homelessness, increasing traffic, and louder noise. Cal plans to find other ways to enroll the 3,050 students. Cal prioritizes state residents for the 2022 fall in-person undergraduate enrollment and transfer students.
I'm repeating common life knowledge. I'm reminding myself and I'm reminding my readers. Life is not fair. Accept it. Blame life. Blame the system. Blame bad luck. Blame bad timing. Life has winners. Life has losers. The losses are greater than the wins, and there are more losses and less wins as long as the number of opportunities remain unchanged. Blame scarcity.
Did the 3,050 students earn Cal's acceptance? Yes. Did the 3,050 students deserve Cal's acceptance? No. Did the 3,050 students fail? No. Thousands of high school seniors worked hard to go to college. Many applied. Few accepted. Nobody deserves everything in life. Nobody is entitled. There are a few exceptions. Who said person A deserves this and that? Who said person B deserves this and that? Who said person ZZZ deserves this and that? Destiny, life, karma, an act of God, and the powers that be assign deserving fortunes to people.
Update On A Past Blog
I wrote similar blogs. The blog Too Many People written on Jul 15, 2019 was about 44 out of 5,000 applications won an affordable apartment unit lottery. There Are Losers For Every Winner blog written on Dec 8, 2018 was about one team wins the championship and the rest of the teams lose. Also, the world is a zero-sum.
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