<p><a href=“http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap9698.cfm[/url]”>http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap9698.cfm</a> Shows the attence per UC of each california country. It’s pretty clear from the map that the mid-tier and lower UC’s are regional schools.</p>
<p>I don't see how you came to that conclusion. Basing it on that map, you have to figure county populations and total number of students. For example, more people from San Diego County went to UCSB compared to the Santa Barbara County-Ventura County number which is what the school is close to. </p>
<p>If the school isn't located in a huge urban area, it seems that counties around the school will prefer that school, but you'll still get scores of students from other metropolitan areas attending. I know 35% of UCSB students are from Northern California counties. </p>
<p>Also, as an example, 14% of UCSB students are from the quad-county area (SB, SLO, Ventura, and Kern). 58.2% of UCLA students are from LA/Orange county area.</p>
<p>What's the point of this.</p>
<p>Im a stats freak, so I find a lot of this stuff interesting. I think this shows that students in counties surrounding a particular UC (except Berkeley) tend to favor those campuses, but because many UCs aren't in huge metropolitan areas, you still get a lot of geographical diversity from students coming in from huge areas.</p>
<p>"...this shows that students in counties surrounding a particular UC (except Berkeley) tend to favor those campuses..."</p>
<p>Not true for Santa Clara County, which is physically closer to UCSC than to UCB. More students favored Davis (386) than Santa Cruz (171).</p>
<p>Yeah, Santa Cruz is a little more spread out, and a few of the counties around it go to Davis instead. It seems to hold a little better for Socal schools, where the counties all cluster around their closest campus.</p>
<p>These data are old.</p>
<p>To view the 2002-04 map, go to...
<a href="http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap0204.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/factbook/county/countymap0204.cfm</a></p>
<p>I believe that schools such as UCSD and UCLA favored applicants from the SD and LA counties, respectively. ALthough i heard that they changed that policy now.</p>
<p>I didn't think people would be so interested in attendence records :) rc251 is correct UCSB does attract students from both socal and nocal. The stats have to be taken with a grain of salt since many students are limited in the choice of UC they go to. From the data it appears that UCD and UCI rarely compete for students.</p>
<p>What really surprised me was that only 8% of CA high school graduates go to a UC after high school.</p>
<p>UC is officially meant to take in the top 12.5% of California students, according to the Master Plan</p>
<p>Dang. UCD has Nor Cal on lock down.</p>
<p>I live 15 minutes away from downtown Los Angeles. Which school is more likely to accept me based on demographic location? UCRiverside or UCIrvine?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but I'm going to bet neither will factor that in very much at all.</p>
<p>** What really surprised me was that only 8% of CA high school graduates go to a UC after high school. **</p>
<p>Maybe because the other applicants went out of state ? Enrolled to Ivy Leagues ? Private schools like Standford, USC, UOP, Pitzer, Claremount Colleges? Or some Cal States based on their majors.......</p>
<p>A lot of Cali hs graduates simply are not UC eligible because of poor academic preparation. </p>
<p>According to data accessible on the California Dept. of Education website, only 115,680 of 343,484 hs graduates in 2004 were even UC/CSU eligible. I don't know exactly how many ended up in the CSU system if 8% went on to UC, but the data is available somewhere.
<a href="http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Cbeds1.asp?Grads=on&Uccsu=on&cChoice=StatProf1&cYear=2004-05&cLevel=State&cTopic=Profile&myTimeFrame=S&submit1=Submit%5B/url%5D">http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Cbeds1.asp?Grads=on&Uccsu=on&cChoice=StatProf1&cYear=2004-05&cLevel=State&cTopic=Profile&myTimeFrame=S&submit1=Submit</a></p>
<p>Cali students have so many options available to them besides the UC system, that 8% does not necessarily represent a negative indication.</p>