How many students chose UC-Merced for Fall '06 (Class of 2010)?

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<p>I’m just curious because I remember reading that very few kids deposited and that they had to move the deposit date to June.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>one kid from my school is going</p>

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<p>I believe 400 submitted their SIR but they had originally wanted 850 students...</p>

<p>I'm saying this out of memory (I saw this somewhere on CC before) so I don't have any links to back up my claim.</p>

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<p>only 3 people are going from my school, if that's any help lol.</p>

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<p>No one is going there from my school, I don't think anyone accually applied</p>

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<p>I got accepted to Merced but didn't go because I am going to SD....</p>

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<p>I am pretty sure UCM acceptance rates are really high since nobody wants to go there even if they ARE accepted...</p>

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<p>They should offer over qualified students 40k/year in addition to free tution and room and board. Maybe they can steal some of the ivy league kids and become the best uc. =)</p>

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<p>I got accepted and didn't even apply.</p>

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<p>were you top 12.3 % ?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was ELC</p>

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<p>A few people at my school chose CC over Merced this year. :&lt;/p>

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<p>Whats ELC? and also how do you get accepted without even applying...</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>A lot of people accept the JC or CC route (at least I know from my school) because they'd much rather transfer into a higher tier UC than Merced.</p>

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<p>Sucks for Merced...</p>

<p>It's strange, they got more students in their FIRST year. Hmm.</p>

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<p>It's very cynical of me to imply this, but it could have taken a year for word to spread out among the Merced-bound students to know of its [lack of] reputation.</p>

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<p>you say chosing CC over Merced as if its a surprise lol</p>

<p>basically they need to shut it down. lol its an insult to the UC system.</p>

<p>I've heard some really crappy things about the school and honestly it was a big mistake to build a school there and expect people to be interested. there aren't much choices for major. i know i'm being very critical but they might as well get rid of it and have put that money towards improving the existing UCs..</p>

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<p>"basically they need to shut it down. lol its an insult to the UC system."</p>

<p>Ridiculous. They just built it, why would they want to shut it down? Not every school starts out with a flagship reputation. It takes time.</p>

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<p>actually, the buildings look really nice.</p>

<p>i dunno, maybe riverside should relocate to merced :)</p>