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In the past several years, UC has been pummeled by demands to open more seats for Californians — including pressure by lawmakers — and has enrolled about 7,800 more California undergraduates between 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Preliminary estimates for this academic year indicate campuses enrolled an additional 3,000 students, boosting the total number of California undergraduates to more than 206,000, the most in UC history.

There are about 2,950 students, total, enrolled in the two schools.

The decision follows weeks of parent anger and questions, culminating in a heated town hall meeting Thursday night at Walter Reed Middle School, during which parents of students enrolled in the prestigious programs contended district officials changed the admissions policies behind closed doors and without a compelling reason.

Melissa Pope has a 10th-grade child who graduated from Twain’s IHP and a seventh-grader currently enrolled.