amount of apps for UCs is out...not much change

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<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2005/05/apptable3.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2005/05/apptable3.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Berkeley up 1.1% from last year
Davis down 4.0%
Irvine up 2.0%
UCLA down 2.3%
merced 7,987 freshman apps
Riverside up 3.3%
UCSD down 2.0%
UCSB up 1.9%
UC Santa Cruz down 1.1%
total at all UCs up 2.8%</p>

<p>I thought there was a baby boomlet, but from these numbers, if there is, it isn’t large.</p>

<p>If the above link doesn’t work, you can read the story at <a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.berkeley.edu</a></p>

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<p>There is a boomlet but we’re well into it, it peaks with those born in 1990. Does anyone think budget cuts are making UCs less popular?</p>

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<p>Obviously us California kids will keep applying to them as they are great schools, but maybe the out of staters realize there are easier schools to get in to that are just as good in quality.</p>

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<p>There could be a number of reasons why more people aren’t applying to the UCs:</p>

<ul>
<li>the increase in tuition & fees + budget cuts</li>
<li>a perception that privates and/or out-of-state schools offer more opportunity</li>
<li>UCs are too competitive; people may be applying more to CSUs or CCs</li>
</ul>

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<p>I realized a while back when looking at these figures that the number of applicants to a given school reflects the number of students who both (a) want to go there, and (b) think they might get accepted. The failure of the number of applications to rise at some schools may not reflect the perceived desirability of the school or the number of graduating HS seniors as much as a better awareness of the correct answer to that CC classic question: “What are my chances?”</p>