A record 121,005 students have applied for undergraduate admission to the University of California next fall.
Preliminary figures show applications for the fall 2008 term grew 9 percent over last fall, with increases among both freshman and transfer applicants and across every ethnic group. Among the highlights:
Systemwide
• Freshman applications from Californian students grew 7.7 percent, while those from out-of-state increased by 14.4 percent; international applications rose 25.2 percent.
• Transfer applications from Californian students increased by 7.1 percent, reversing last year's dip, while out-of-state and international transfer applicants were up by 5.1 percent and 24.9 percent, respectively. Since 2006, freshman applications have increased by 14.9 percent and transfers by 7.8 percent.
• The average freshman applicant applied to 3.6 campuses, while transfer students applied to an average of 2.9 campuses.
• Only 721 paper applications were mailed -- 99.5 percent of freshmen and 99 percent of transfers filed online.
By ethnicity
• Among all freshmen, the data reflect an increase in the number of applicants from every racial/ethnic group with the largest increases among Chicano/Latino applicants (17.9 percent) and African-American applicants (16.1 percent).
• Among California resident freshmen, all campuses experienced increases in African-American applicants, with the highest, 61.3 percent at Santa Barbara (+792). Since 2006, applications from African-American students have increased by 26.4 percent.
• Applications from California resident Chicano/Latino students increased by at least 16.2 percent on all campuses. The two-year increase in Chicano/Latino applicants is 30.4 percent.
By campus
• Freshman applicants increased on all campuses: Davis (15.6 percent), Santa Barbara (15 percent), Santa Cruz (13.8 percent), Merced (13.2 percent), Berkeley (9.8 percent), Los Angeles (9.2 percent), Riverside (6.5 percent), Irvine (6.2 percent) and San Diego (5.1 percent).
• All campuses also showed increases -- in most cases, double-digit -- in transfer applications, led by Merced (37.7 percent, or 300 applicants), Santa Barbara (12.9 percent), Los Angeles (12 percent) and Davis (11.9 percent).
UC fall 2008 application tables: http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2008/08app.html
Campus news releases:
[Note: The systemwide totals used above and in the attached tables are preliminary and "unduplicated,"
meaning that each student is counted only once, even if he or she applied to multiple campuses. As a result, the systemwide totals are not the sum of the individual campus counts. Based on the UCAP Management Report of Jan. 4, 2008.]