Indicator 3.1
Freshman Applicants, Admits and Enrollees, Fall 1995 to 2008
UC freshman enrollment has increased rapidly in the past 10 years. Several factors account for this trend, including growth in the number of high school graduates and growth in the proportion of high school graduates who are meeting UC's eligibility requirements and applying to, and attending, the University.
Freshman enrollment dropped in 2004 when funding for enrollment growth was excluded from the 2004-05 state budget. Enrollment growth funds were later restored. By that time, however, UC had, in anticipation of a serious budget shortfall, denied an unusually large number of students for the Fall 2004 term.
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Source: UCOP StatFinder files. Additional information can be found at http://statfinder.ucop.edu.
Universitywide data are unduplicated counts. Students typically apply to more than one UC campus so the sums for all of the campuses’ applicants will exceed the Universitywide totals.
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.