Why do we have to leave?

As you scroll down the LAHS Class of 2016 Post Grad Plan facebook page, you see a huge number of Big 10, Pac 12, and other out of state colleges on the list. Why are so many people going out of state this year? For some people, these schools might have been there absolute first choice, but I know for a lot of people they had to look further out of California for college because the big top California colleges are just too hard to get into these days. The acceptance rates for the UC's and other top California schools are dramatically decreasing year by year. Even just 3 years ago we see a ton of Los Altos students heading to UCLA, CAL, UCSB, and other schools for college. But now, it's almost impossible for students with only a 4.0 to get into these schools. When did a 4.0 become average? Three years ago my brother applied to UCSB and UCLA as an out of state resident and got into UCSB and waitlisted at UCLA with much lower grades than I have. The population is growing and it's getting too hard to get into college. Why should so many students that have grown up in California there entire lives not be able to get into the colleges in their own state? There has also been complaints to the UC's that they are accepting out of state students that are much less qualified than some in state students. The UC's have a cap on how many California residents they can accept, so they lower there standards for out of state students. California is becoming too populated for the universities to support the amount of people we have. You might think that California has a ton of universities and colleges, but it's getting to the point where we need more in order to support our population. And now, even if you can get into the UC's, can you even get classes? Can you finish in 4 years? If this continues we are going to have a big problem at our hands. As the UC's get nearly impossible to get into, we see the smaller private schools like LMU, Chapman, USD, and others getting harder to get into as well. A couple years ago, these schools were fairly easy to get into, but now even these schools that aren't considered top of the top are needing almost 4.0's to get into. As these lower schools get harder, more and more California residents are being pushed out of California. California needs to fix this problem, because of out state schools aren't going to be able to just accept every single California resident that applies. We need to expand our schools in order to support our population, we need to help ourselves. Right now what we keep seeing is that colleges usually have the highest number of students from the state it is in, with California typically being the number 2, no matter what state.