2025 UC admits, applications, and acceptance rates by campus

UC just published the admitted student counts today. See link below the table.

I’ve summarized the acceptance rates for admissions since the UCOP Student Data website doesn’t do the calc.

FIRST YEAR APPLICANTS 2025 Admitted 2025 Applied Acceptance Rate
UC-Berkeley 14,451 126,796 11.4%
UC-Davis 45,963 102,958 44.6%
UC-Irvine 35,661 124,214 28.7%
UC-Los Angeles 13,660 145,058 9.4%
UC-Merced 46,932 48,049 97.7%
UC-Riverside 61,718 70,578 87.4%
UC-San Diego 38,846 136,728 28.4%
UC-Santa Barbara 42,170 110,165 38.3%
UC-Santa Cruz 48,244 66,178 72.9%
TRANSFER APPLICANTS 2025 Admitted 2025 Applied Acceptance Rate
UC-Berkeley 5,603 23,313 24.0%
UC-Davis 9,776 17,173 56.9%
UC-Irvine 10,011 25,436 39.4%
UC-Los Angeles 6,403 28,239 22.7%
UC-Merced 3,730 3,696 100.9%
UC-Riverside 9,351 12,326 75.9%
UC-San Diego 12,355 23,422 52.7%
UC-Santa Barbara 11,089 18,818 58.9%
UC-Santa Cruz 8,852 11,595 76.3%
FIRST YEARS + TRANSFERS 2025 Admitted 2025 Applied Acceptance Rate
UC-Berkeley 20,054 150,109 13.4%
UC-Davis 55,739 120,131 46.4%
UC-Irvine 45,672 149,650 30.5%
UC-Los Angeles 20,063 173,297 11.6%
UC-Merced 50,662 51,745 97.9%
UC-Riverside 71,069 82,904 85.7%
UC-San Diego 51,201 160,150 32.0%
UC-Santa Barbara 53,259 128,983 41.3%
UC-Santa Cruz 57,096 77,773 73.4%

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

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How can it be over 100%? It there something similar to ELC for transfer students whereby some get auto acceptance without applying?

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The demographics by campus for instate students are also interesting in view of debates in other threads about the appeal of different UC campuses. I was particularly interested in the wide differences in the lower ranking campuses (UCSC, UCR and UCM). Santa Cruz has far fewer low income students than the other two (in fact the highest percentage of “not low income” instate students of any UC), reflecting the high cost of living there (and presumably related to both that and the local demographics, has the highest percentage of white students of any UC).

The widening gap between female and male admissions at all UCs (other than UCM/UCR) since the move to test-blind is also notable.

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Not sure why the admitted is higher than the applied for UC Merced transfers but perhaps Merced reached out to Transfer applicants that were not admitted to their choice campuses???

Nothing similar to ELC for Transfers, but Transfers have TAG which assures admission if the course and GPA requirements are met but it is also limited to 6 campuses and several popular/competitive majors are excluded from TAG.

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I believe it’s the “Count Me In” transfer program at Merced. Sounds a lot like the ELC auto-accept, only for transfers.

https://admissions.ucmerced.edu/node/5981

Thanks for posting the Count Me information. I did not know that they have this program for Transfers also.