UC Santa Cruz Freshman Class of 2026 Discussion

For what its worth, here’s the detailed breakdown I did for CS. My one takeaway from the data is that even UCSC tends to internally look at applicants through the lens of the uncapped UC GPA.

In general, people say UCSC is not a slam dunk for high stat applicants for CS. This data shows that is not the case. Although looking at applicant trends, there was 10x increase in applicant volume for the >4.40 GPA bucket indicating that the pool is becoming more competitive rapidly.

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