IRVINE – UC Irvine has rescinded more than 500 admissions for the fall and some students are calling foul, saying the university has erroneously revoked their admittances.

UCI’s Associated Students, the student government association on campus, sent a letter and a petition to administrators demanding they apologize, reimburse all students whose admission status has been revoked, and establish a special transfer agreement guaranteeing those students admission to UCI after they satisfactorily complete two years at a community college.

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The UCI student leaders also want to see “a case-by-case reasoning for admission withdrawal to each student,” according to the letter delivered to UCI officials on Wednesday, along with a petition of 600-plus students and others. Some students, they said, were not told why their admissions approvals had been revoked.

The university’s enrollment target is about 6,250 first-year students, but school officials won’t have an exact number of students enrolled until after the fall session begins, UCI spokesman Tom Vasich said. The offers are provisional, pending final checks of grades and other records, which must be received by July 1.

The university withdrew 503 admission offers: 294 were related to transcript issues, and 209 to grade issues, Vasich said. Students can appeal those decisions; so far, 56 have regained their admission spots, he said.

Vasich could not say how many admission offers were rescinded in previous years.

“We urge students to appeal if they feel they have a legitimate issue,” Vasich said. “We don’t want to take away something they have earned.”

The letter submitted by UCI student leaders includes 11 testimonials from some of the students: One said he has a receipt proving that the transcript arrived on June 30th, and another said the graduation date wasn’t printed on a transcript, outside of the student’s control. A third student said a transcript with not-required college coursework was actually turned in even though the university said otherwise.

Vasich said administrators plan to meet with the student leaders. He denied online chatter that the university is rescinding offers because it over-enrolled students.

“All accepted students who meet the terms and conditions of the offer agreement will be welcomed into UCI,” he said.