<p>At the orientation in San Francisco I was pretty sure I heard the chancellor say that 10-11,000 applicants (around 25%) got in out of the 40,000 that applied. Am I rememberiing wrong or is this correct?</p>
<p>yeah, i heard something like that too at the san jose reception.
i think it was 44,000 applicants, and about 11,000 acceptances (i remember thinking 25-30% acceptance rate).</p>
<p>wow really? that's pretty competitive for one of the what some would call "lower tier UC's"</p>
<p>nah, it's more like 20k got in out of 40k. About 50% admittance rate.</p>
<p>I'm not sure where you got that from...seems weird that the chancellor would make up a statistic at two orientations...</p>
<p>It's not 25%</p>
<p>What i'm thinking they were talking about at the orientation was the matriculated rate</p>
<p>Also the acceptance rates don't really mean anything, because they don't take into account the quality of applicants such as the applicants gpa or sats.</p>
<p><a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?match=true&collegeId=990&type=qfs&word=ucsb%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?match=true&collegeId=990&type=qfs&word=ucsb</a> (2006 rates i suppose)</p>
<p>according to mercury news: 50%</p>