Is this true?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Davis
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<p>If I understand this correctly, that means acceptance rate for freshman is only 4800/35000 this year (13.7%)??</p>

<p>University of California, Davis
January 24, 2007</p>

<p>UNDERGRADUATE APPLICATIONS UP 6 PERCENT</p>

<p>More than 42,300 high school seniors, prospective transfer students
and others applied to study at the University of California, Davis,
for fall 2007 – a 5.9 percent increase over fall 2006.</p>

<p>A total of 42,311 students applied to UC Davis, compared with 39,936
applicants for fall 2006. There are 35,088 applicants for freshman
status this fall, a 7.6 percent increase from last year’s 32,611 and
the largest percentage gain in freshman applications among UC’s
undergraduate campuses.</p>

<p>A total of 7,223 applicants are seeking to transfer from another
college or university, for a 1.4 percent decrease from last fall’s
7,325.</p>

<p>Applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups rose to about
19 percent among both domestic freshman applicants and domestic
transfer students. Last year, they accounted for about 17 percent in
each applicant group.</p>

<p>“We’re encouraged by the increased diversity of our freshman and
transfer applicant pools,” said Pamela Burnett, director of
Undergraduate Admissions at UC Davis.</p>

<p>For fall 2007, UC Davis is aiming to enroll about 4,800 new freshmen
directly from high school and about 1,800 new transfer students.</p>

<p>Systemwide, UC applications are up 3.9 percent overall, from 106,784
for fall 2006 to 110,994 for fall 2007. A total of 87,213 students
applied for freshman status, for a 5.3 percent increase over last
year’s 82,841. Among transfer applicants, there was a 0.7 decrease,
from 23,943 last year to 23,781.</p>

<p>Freshman applicants by ethnicity</p>

<p>A total of 32,901 California high school students applied for
freshman status at UC Davis in 2007, compared with 30,650 for fall
2006. Those from traditionally underrepresented groups – African
American, American Indian and Chicano/Latino – increased 16 percent.
For fall 2007, they account for 19 percent, or 6,270, of all
California high school applicants, compared with 17.6 percent for
students who applied to study at UC Davis for fall 2006.</p>

<p>All ethnic groups experienced increases this year: African American,
from 1,141 last year to 1,242 this year, or 8.9 percent; American
Indian, from 201 last year to 217 this year, or 8 percent; Asian
American, from 10,972 to 11,239, or 2.4 percent; Chicano/Latino, from
4,062 to 4,811, or 18.4 percent; Filipino American, from 1,293 to
1,476, or 14.2 percent; and White/other, from 11,438 to 12,371, or
8.2 percent.</p>

<p>Students for whom an ethnicity is missing increased negligibly, from
1,543 to 1,545, or 0.1 percent.</p>

<p>Transfer applicants</p>

<p>A total of 5,691 domestic applicants are seeking to transfer from a
California community college this year, compared with 5,873 last
year. Those from traditionally underrepresented groups account for
19.1 percent of the domestic applicants, compared with 17.6 percent
last year.</p>

<p>Those groups with increases this year include: African American, from
213 last year to 222 this year, or 4.2 percent; Chicano/Latino, from
760 to 816, or 7.4 percent; and Filipino American, from 198 to 212,
or 7.1 percent.</p>

<p>The following groups experienced decreases: American Indian, from 61
last year to 53 this year, or 13.1 percent; Asian American, from
1,914 to 1,797, or 6.1 percent; and White/other, from 2,309 to 2,223,
or 3.7 percent.</p>

<p>Students for whom an ethnicity is missing also decreased from 418 to
365, or 12 percent.</p>

<p>Offers of admission</p>

<p>Applicants will be notified of admission decisions beginning in
mid-March.</p>

<p>Burnett encourages applicants to beat the rush by creating their
MyAdmissions account now so they can easily check the status of their
application online at <a href=“http://myadmissions.ucdavis.edu”>http://myadmissions.ucdavis.edu</a>.</p>

<p>UC Davis applications generally reflect trends in UC systemwide data.
Statistics for the system are available at
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html</a>.</p>

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<p>No, you misunderstood. It's reasonable to expect that UCD will offer acceptances to about 60% (probably more) of the 35,000 that apply, or at least about 21,000 students. UCD expects that about 20-25% of those accepted students will actually attend UCD; the remaining 75-80% will go to another university to which they were accepted. The 20-25% will make up the 4800 students in the freshman class.</p>

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<p>Ah, thanks for clearing that up. :)</p>

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<p>If UCD plans on only enrolling 4800 freshman next fall, that represents a 700 student decrease from fall 2006. When viewed in combination with the significant increase in the number of applicants this year, it looks like it will be extremely difficult to be accepted to UCD next fall. I'm really depressed about this because UCD is my first choice. I wonder what the point cutoff will be for Letters and Science for new freshman applicants? I heard that it was in the 7100-7200 range for last year.</p>

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<p>Yup. This is what they were planning all along.</p>

<p>UC Davis Admissions' strategy:
1. Fall 2006: Let's let in a lot of kids.
2. A lot of kids will go here, we'll get their money.
3. Since we have all those kids from last year (and their money), we don't have to let in as much kids in Fall 2007.
4. BUT a lot of kids will still apply here because all of their friends got accepted and go here. Kids LOVE their friends.
5. A lot of kids do apply for Fall '07
6. We'll have a much lower acceptance rate i.e. 40% as opposed to 60%.
7. We'll still be able to fill the amount of spaces we're shooting for.</p>

<p>THE END</p>

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<p>^^So you're saying it was all just a scheme just to lower the percent accepted rate by a little bit? In the end what's the point?</p>

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<p>Wow maybe Elvis is working for UCD's admissions office too. LOL</p>

<p>In the end the kids who get admitted here are lucky cuz UCD rocks dude.</p>

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<p>The administration at UC Davis is like any other college, they want to have a good reputation. If you don't want that for your college, you shouldn't be in the admin. Lowering the admit rate goes a long way in adding to the reputation (AKA prestige) of your university. Adding to the reputation equals more funding, better program. Better program = better reputation and its all one big circle.</p>

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<p>Do you have any actual evidence for this, or is it just complete speculation based one single fact?</p>

<p>Admission rates are only one of many factors in evaluating schools, otherwise Calif. State U. San Bernardino (19%) would be more prestigious than UC Berkeley (27%) (<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/lowacc_brief.php)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/lowacc_brief.php)&lt;/a>. A one-year drop in an institution's admit rate would not have much effect on a university's ranking or funding.</p>

<p>If you seriously believe that the UCD Admissions staff would over-accept one year so that they could under-accept the next year in order to boost their ranking and fundings perhaps you should go to a school you trust.</p>

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<p>This is all speculation and I do trust UCD.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure there's an article released by UC Davis in 2006 where they stated more students accepted the offer of admission than they expected. I'll try to find it.</p>

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<p>Ok, here we go. I haven't found an official UC Davis announcement about it yet, but I'm digging. For now, I've found an op/ed piece from the California Aggie. Here's an excerpt:</p>

<p>Surely, administrators knew earlier in the year that they would be increasing the number of acceptance letters to overcompensate for last year's under-enrollment. The responsible action would have been for the university to forewarn continuing students signing up for campus housing that the program would be in flux depending on final numbers in the spring.</p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://media.www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2006/05/23/Opinion/Editorial.More.Acceptances.Will.Increase.Alienation-2013147.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://media.www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2006/05/23/Opinion/Editorial.More.Acceptances.Will.Increase.Alienation-2013147.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Basically the admissions office was trying to compensate for the 2004-2005 school year's under enrollment, but apparently they over did it.</p>