University of California campuses are seeing a record level of interest from undergraduates hoping to enroll next fall, despite UC’s difficult year fending off federal efforts to gut its research programs and extract billions of dollars in penalties.
Nearly 252,000 hopefuls from high schools and community colleges applied to attend UC next fall, according to newly released data — more than in any other year and beating its previous record, set in 2022, by 209 students.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/college-admissions/article/uc-record-applications-2026-21941074.php
