Historical UC acceptance rate

Colleges & Universities University of California - GENERAL
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<p>Here is the acceptance rate for UCs for 2000,2001,2005,2006</p>

<p>School: 2000 2001 2005 2006</p>

<p>UC Berkeley:25.9% 24.9% 26.1% 23.6%
UC Davis: 63.3% 62.0% 60.3% 68.0%
UCI: 56.3% 59.5% 60.3% 59.1%
UCLA: 28.5% 26.7% 26.8% 25.5%
UCM: - - 75.6% 77.5%
UCR: 80.9% 80.7% 76.0% 78.6%
UCSD: 37.9% 43.0% 42.0% 45.7%
UCSB: 44.7% 48.3% 52.7% 52.0%
UCSC: 80.2% 80.6% 74.8% 79.7%</p>

<p><a href=“Admissions | University of California”>http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/apr01/freshmen.htm#camp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Admissions | University of California”>Admissions | University of California;

<p>Why is UC Davis so easy to get into?
Why is UCSB so hard to get into?
Why is UCI easier to get into than UCSB?
Why is UCD, UCSB, UCSD getting easier to get into?
Why is UCM harder to get into than UCSC and UCR?
Why did Berkely and UCLA maintain selectivity while other UCs changed alot?</p>

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<p>Why is UC Davis so easy to get into?</p>

<p>They’re expanding and admitting more students.</p>

<p>Why is UCSB so hard to get into?</p>

<p>Reputation and location.</p>

<p>Why is UCI easier to get into than UCSB?</p>

<p>See above.</p>

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<p>Because UCM has limited capicity and people that are going to any of the UCs in this tier would probably prefer a new campus.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and UCLA are essentially at maxium capacity while demand increases.</p>

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<p>UCSB is about quantity of applicants not quality. UCD is increasing their enrollment.</p>

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<p>“UCSB is about quantity of applicants not quality. UCD is increasing their enrollment.”</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Total:
Critical Reading + Math + Writing</p>

<p>UC Davis: 1824
UCSB: 1842</p>

<p>GPA</p>

<p>UC Davis: 3.84
UCSB: 3.90</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/freshman_admit_profile_2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Too close to even argue about lol!</p>

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<p>Yield rates might have something to do with it as part of the formulas employed (total number of students from yield percentage X%, what we (UC Y) expects this year).</p>

<p>Remember admissions% =/= difficult of admissions in any complete picture. Also keep in mind that many kids who end up either at “better” UCs or at other schools entirely use the low, the mid, and some the top UCs as safeties or possible places they would attend under certain circumstance (if 1) they don’t get in to a particular school, 2) there parents make them, 3) they change their mind about it, 4) other).</p>

<p>I expect larger percentage acceptance at some schools such as UCR as they try to increase their size in the future.</p>

<p>Simply put, it’s complicated. :)</p>

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<p>So UCR, UCM, UCD and UCSC are similar in admissions quality.</p>

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<p>I would say UCD is harder to get into than those other UCs.</p>

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<p>Are the averages not higher at UCSC and UCR than UCM as well?</p>

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<p>it is broken down into 3 tiers</p>

<p>HARD- UCB,UCLA,UCSD (TIER1)
MEDIUM- UCSB,UCI,UCD (TIER2)
EASY- UCSC,UCR,UCM (TIER3)</p>

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<p>UCSDs had a jump because of the addition of an extra college (Sixth). Also, next years figures will likely drop significantly due to UCSD overaccepting this year (expected 39% of those admitted to accept admission. 45% did).</p>

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<p>Could you explain how the addition of an extra college made it jump up? Without a great addition of total number of students accepted as well, I wouldn’t understand.</p>

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<p>i’ll check the numbers again, but each college has between 800-1200 students per year.</p>

<p>UCSDs college system of course is more for housing and GE requirements, not subjects.</p>

<p>EDIT: <a href=“http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ugcoll.pdf[/url]”>http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/enroll/ugcoll.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Total Student Body Size:
1995: 14,846
2000: 16,230
2005: 20,679</p>

<p>The rate at which SD was adding more to its total student body between 1995 and 2000 practically doubled between 2000 and 2005. One reason was the addition of Sixth College, making the total number 6 colleges. That in tandem with increasing the total szies of the other 5, as well as SDs effort to increase the college size to 20,000 students led to an increase in acceptances. (While it will be balancing at this amount for a while, the UC system wants UCSD to increase to 30,000 students eventually.) </p>

<p>Between 2000 and 2001, the acceptance rate remained relatively the same (200 increase). Between 2001 and 2002, it was a 1000 student increase (for the year with Eleanor Roosevelt College getting its own new housing units and Sixth College was found on ERCs original site), explaining the large boost in acceptance rate between 2001 and 2002 (followed by a 2000 student boost between 2002 and 2003, and a 1000 student boost between 2003 and 2004) The increase in students stopped in 2005.</p>

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<p>Well, could you compare that to UCLA and Berkeley to show why UCSD is different? Or perhaps some other UC schools.</p>

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<p>(expected 39% of those admitted to accept admission. 45% did)</p>

<p>UCSD accepted 45% of the applicants this year while it only accepted 39% last year. I think you have misunderstood the stats.</p>

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<p>UCSD has undergone a lot of expansion in facilities in the last few years including dorms as well as classroom and office space. This should have some affect on the numbers of students attending. I know UCLA has added a bunch of new dorms but it’s also taking some offline for refurbishment and part of the purpose is to allow students to stay on campus longer. I don’t know if UCLA’s or UCB’s classroom facilities have expanded as much as UCSDs. Ditto that some other schools are expanding and thus admission percentages s/b higher. The rates are also affected by acceptances versus admission offers.</p>

<p>The bottom line is that one can’t simply look at these basic numbers and draw conclusions as to the selectivity of the school based on admit rates (if that was the goal of this thread). More telling would be average SAT/GPA scores of the students offerred admission.</p>

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<p>I agree, looking at percentage alone can be very meaningless, and it is far more meaningful doing so along side average GPA and SAT scores.</p>

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<p>It has to do with how many applicants there were each year for each campus. It doesn’t make much sense to me to compare these percentages</p>

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<p>All of these comparisons are ridiculous for undergrad. Research what possible majors you are interested in. Look at the schools that have a good variety inside your area of interests in case you change your mind. Visit the campus of the schools that meet your criteria to see if you are comfortable there. Apply and see where you get in. For undergrad the upper and mid tier UC’s will take you where you want to go. (grad school) When researching grad schools then you should pay lots of attention to this ranking stuff. Also don’t go undergrad where you want to go to grad school in the UC system. Most UC’s frown on going to the same grad school where you went for undergrad.</p>