Number of UC applications - insight?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:19:18 +0000

Based on the entries at collegedata.com (admissions tab), UCI and UCM consider “level of applicant’s interest” in admission decisions (an undesirable trend for public university undergraduate admissions generally), but the others do not (although they could still use it to predict a given admitted applicant’s chance of yielding).

How they would do so is not necessarily clear, since some of the traditional indicators of interest are not present (no ED option, no “why this campus?” essay because of the common UC application), although visibility of other campus applications can be a part of it (e.g. if UCI sees that an “overqualified” applicant is also applying to UCB, UCLA, and UCSD, would it believe that this applicant is less interested in UCI?). Other usual ways of showing interest like having visits recorded and opening emails from the campus with an image-opening mail reader could be tried.