2024 UC Application Numbers

Colleges & Universities University of California - GENERAL
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The preliminary UC Application numbers have been posted on the UCOP website. Here is a screen shot of the data.

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https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/content-analysis/ug-admissions/ug-pages/applications.html

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Do you have last year’s numbers handy so we can do a side by side comparison? If not, no worries, I can look them up :slight_smile:

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Here is the link for 2015-2023. I do not have the screenshot for the 2023 summary.

Total number of Freshman applicants is about the same. The number of Transfers is up from 2023.

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I think the following table (for FRESHMAN applicants only) should be correct, I used the above numbers from your screen shot @Gumbymom and I put it in a table with numbers from this UCOP pdf summarizing 2021-2023 numbers.

Campus 2021 2022 2023 2024
Universitywide CA 128,128 132,337 132,226 134,053
OOS 46,126 47,103 44,755 43,234
Int’l 29,446 31,400 29,424 29,606
Total 203,700 210,840 206,406 206,893
Berkeley CA 62,169 72,417 72,656 72,129
OOS 29,629 32,580 31,309 29,755
Int’l 21,022 23,195 21,909 22,320
Total 112,820 128,192 125,874 124,204
Davis CA 60,941 65,367 65,109 67,912
OOS 9,505 10,748 11,402 12,267
Int’l 16,672 18,610 18,098 18,655
Total 87,118 94,725 94,609 98,834
Irvine CA 77,995 84,743 86,409 87,517
OOS 11,676 14,309 15,401 15,732
Int’l 18,268 20,113 19,255 19,412
Total 107,939 119,165 121,074 122,661
Los Angeles CA 84,148 91,544 90,747 92,290
OOS 33,383 34,627 33,066 31,841
Int’l 21,932 23,608 22,069 22,119
Total 139,463 149,779 145,882 146,250
Merced CA 22,509 22,516 21,854 23,691
OOS 1,102 1,319 1,272 1,539
Int’l 1,847 2,208 2,605 4,121
Total 25,458 26,043 25,730 29,351
Riverside CA 45,290 46,456 47,823 48,633
OOS 2,412 2,492 2,807 2,753
Int’l 4,861 5,417 5,832 6,034
Total 52,563 54,365 56,462 57,420
San Diego CA 76,380 84,326 84,910 88,392
OOS 20,811 23,778 23,951 24,169
Int’l 21,169 23,122 21,969 21,878
Total 118,360 131,226 130,830 134,439
Santa Barbara CA 71,209 73,575 74,902 75,523
OOS 16,829 18,432 18,390 17,466
Int’l 17,602 18,984 17,569 17,247
Total 105,640 110,991 110,861 110,236
Santa Cruz CA 49,183 53,051 54,846 57,503
OOS 6,287 6,878 7,382 7,691
Int’l 6,238 5,937 6,592 6,503
Total 61,708 65,866 68,820 71,697

(I typed the numbers in manually since copy paste got the tables all scrambled, if anyone sees a mistake let me know and I will edit)

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I’m curious about the ‘honors’ courses category- is this for 10th and 11th grade only? Include 9th or planned 12th grade?

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Honors courses – the number of year long courses taken or planned in 10th-12th grades. These are Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate Higher Level (IB HL) and designated Standard Level (IB SL) courses, UC-transferable college courses and (for students from CA high schools) UC-certified honors courses.

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The LA Times article is behind a paywall. Yahoo has a reprint.

Applications from out-of-state residents fell, possibly a reflection of state goals focused on keeping more seats for Californians. Texas sent the most applicants

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Wrong link — delete

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Thanks for the table. I hope you don’t mind that I added comparison columns to show the year over year percentage increase from 2023, and the percentage increase from 2021.
Interesting to see that the relatively larger increases are at the “less popular” UC campuses.

Campus 2021 2022 2023 2024 2024 v 2023 2024 v 2021
Universitywide CA 128,128 132,337 132,226 134,053 1.4% 4.6%
OOS 46,126 47,103 44,755 43,234 -3.4% -6.3%
Int’l 29,446 31,400 29,424 29,606 0.6% 0.5%
Total 203,700 210,840 206,406 206,893 0.2% 1.6%
Berkeley CA 62,169 72,417 72,656 72,129 -0.7% 16.0%
OOS 29,629 32,580 31,309 29,755 -5.0% 0.4%
Int’l 21,022 23,195 21,909 22,320 1.9% 6.2%
Total 112,820 128,192 125,874 124,204 -1.3% 10.1%
Davis CA 60,941 65,367 65,109 67,912 4.3% 11.4%
OOS 9,505 10,748 11,402 12,267 7.6% 29.1%
Int’l 16,672 18,610 18,098 18,655 3.1% 11.9%
Total 87,118 94,725 94,609 98,834 4.5% 13.4%
Irvine CA 77,995 84,743 86,409 87,517 1.3% 12.2%
OOS 11,676 14,309 15,401 15,732 2.1% 34.7%
Int’l 18,268 20,113 19,255 19,412 0.8% 6.3%
Total 107,939 119,165 121,074 122,661 1.3% 13.6%
Los Angeles CA 84,148 91,544 90,747 92,290 1.7% 9.7%
OOS 33,383 34,627 33,066 31,841 -3.7% -4.6%
Int’l 21,932 23,608 22,069 22,119 0.2% 0.9%
Total 139,463 149,779 145,882 146,250 0.3% 4.9%
Merced CA 22,509 22,516 21,854 23,691 8.4% 5.3%
OOS 1,102 1,319 1,272 1,539 21.0% 39.7%
Int’l 1,847 2,208 2,605 4,121 58.2% 123.1%
Total 25,458 26,043 25,730 29,351 14.1% 15.3%
Riverside CA 45,290 46,456 47,823 48,633 1.7% 7.4%
OOS 2,412 2,492 2,807 2,753 -1.9% 14.1%
Int’l 4,861 5,417 5,832 6,034 3.5% 24.1%
Total 52,563 54,365 56,462 57,420 1.7% 9.2%
San Diego CA 76,380 84,326 84,910 88,392 4.1% 15.7%
OOS 20,811 23,778 23,951 24,169 0.9% 16.1%
Int’l 21,169 23,122 21,969 21,878 -0.4% 3.3%
Total 118,360 131,226 130,830 134,439 2.8% 13.6%
Santa Barbara CA 71,209 73,575 74,902 75,523 0.8% 6.1%
OOS 16,829 18,432 18,390 17,466 -5.0% 3.8%
Int’l 17,602 18,984 17,569 17,247 -1.8% -2.0%
Total 105,640 110,991 110,861 110,236 -0.6% 4.4%
Santa Cruz CA 49,183 53,051 54,846 57,503 4.8% 16.9%
OOS 6,287 6,878 7,382 7,691 4.2% 22.3%
Int’l 6,238 5,937 6,592 6,503 -1.4% 4.2%
Total 61,708 65,866 68,820 71,697 4.2% 16.2%
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Yes! My guess is that this is due to some combination of

  • more awareness of how difficult it is to be admitted to the “more popular” campuses
  • more appreciation for what the “less popular” campuses have to offer (perhaps boosted by rise in rankings)

But it’s also interesting to look closely at the CA / OOS / Int’l patterns, not just the overall numbers, because this seems to differ a lot by campus as well. For example, the percentage increase in int’l applicants for Merced is quite dramatic.

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Thank you all for the hard work it took to provide the information. UCI in its acceptance letter gave this:

“Your accomplishments shone brightly among a record-breaking number of applicants this year (147,000 to be exact)” as the number of application UCI got this year.

Not sure how they count this, but I suspect the figure is somewhere in between?

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They’re probably including transfer apps in that numver

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Someone posted this table in UCI thread right after I posted my last post. Not sure where the numbers are from, but I’m just shocked.

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Those numbers are from the UCOP website that I posted at the top of this discussion thread: Fall 2024 preliminary application tables | UCOP

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Given the sheer number of applicants… I think UCs should now start doing a 50% refund on application fees for all rejected candidates…

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Or start selling T-Shirts that say “I got rejected by.”

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2024 UC Admission table is out:

Fall 2024 Admissions Tables | UCOP

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On first glance, things that stood out:

Berkeley’s number/percentage of international students.

I don’t remember the gender identity breakdown by numbers before. Percentagewise, they all look very similar. By number, 50% of the total UC trans/non binary students are at UCSC.

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Am I reading that right that only 67% of UCLA admits were in-state?