UC San Diego receives over 116,000 applications for admission next fall

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"UC San Diego reported Thursday a record high of well over 116,000 students who applied for admission for next fall, including 97,670 prospective freshmen and 18,782 transfers.

The totals are 10 percent higher than last year for freshmen, and 6 percent larger for transfers, school officials said.

‘We are pleased to receive a record number of applications from so many diverse and talented young scholars,’ said Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. ‘As a university constantly pushing the frontiers of knowledge to benefit society, UC San Diego continues to attract the best and the brightest students who make up our vibrant campus community.’

The numbers reflected gains in applications seen around the University of California system, which broke records for the 13th straight year. Nearly 222,000 students applied to at least one UC campus.

UCSD ranked second in total applications behind UCLA, just ahead of rapidly growing UC Irvine." …

http://www.cbs8.com/story/37073405/uc-san-diego-receives-over-116000-applications-for-admission-next-fall

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Does this mean it’s much more competitive this yr?

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Yes ^^^^

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They should realize that the same applicants also applied to UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCD, UCI, etc. So their yield will be lower and they should admit more students to keep the same size of incoming class.

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@bogeyorpar: Yes many of the same applicants apply to multiple UC’s every year historically and the acceptance rates continue to decline while still accepting the around the same # of Freshman and Transfers although less OOS and International since the campuses are now capped at around 20%.

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Once again, the incredible inefficiency of the UC admissions process is on display. They need to institute a match system.

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/1975773-uc-admissions-observations-on-2016-17-and-a-modest-proposal-long-post.html

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I think they are rather brilliant – make it easy for kids to apply to all 9 UCs and raking it in at $70 a pop. Although the state is run by communists, the UC system is capitalistic at its best. :slight_smile:

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Bogey, I agree that could have a lot to do with retaining the current system. But they could easily design the new system to pull in the same revenue, while cutting down on the cost of evaluating applications.

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since the amount of freshmen applicants increased by 4,000 from last year. I calculated that the acceptance rate for this year should be around 34%, but that is just a prediction based on the fact that 36% of the 84,000 applicants got admitted last year and that a little over 30k students get accepted every year.