<p>For UCs, it is just one application and 2 essays no matter how many UCs you apply to. In the app, there is a list of check boxes for each UC, just check which ever ones you want your application to go to.</p>
<p>The only additionals are:
- the application fee is calculated per UC, I think last year it was $70 per UC, so if you checked 3 boxes, you pay $210
- since not all UCs have the same majors, for each UC you check, you need to specify the major/alternate major (except for UCB which doesn’t allow alternate), for UCSD, you need to rank the 6 colleges</p>
<p>So it is very easy to add a few UCs to your list and you can pretty much count them as 1 app.</p>