<p>why is it so high?</p>
<p>the uc's ranked above it tend to suck up all the more qualified candidates. uci, atleast at my school, is considered a safety college to many</p>
<p>i guess the school is not veyr appealing to most altho the bio program is supposed to be pretty good. i think even UCSB gets most of the common admits so UCI has to accept so many. But at least UCI has UCDavis to lower their rate. as Davis was a 69% acceptance rate this year!</p>
<p>Davis is expanding. They accepted a record 900 more students this year, duh.</p>
<p>for a school that is expanding it seems to have lots of problems gettin applicnants. santa cruz is closing the gap between the davis and ucsc.</p>
<p>UC Davis accepted extra students (about 5000 more) in hopes to fulfill their goal for 4700-5000 students for their freshman class (near 5000 recommended). However, little did they know, more people this year decided to sign an SIR to UC Davis so the number of SIRs soared to about 5900.</p>
<p>Hahaha lots of problems getting applicants, shows what you know dumb a$$.</p>
<p>why does uc davis get 30k applicants and the competitive UCs (not UCR UCSC UCD or UCM) get 40k+?</p>
<p>where did you get the 69% acceptance rate? i found on collegeboard that UCI accepted 60% and UCD accepted 61%</p>
<p>Those are older figures. Here's the current figures:</p>
<p>The order is now:
Berkeley: 23.6%
Los Angeles: 25.5%
San Diego: 45.7%
Santa Barbara: 52.0%
Irvine: 59.1%
Davis: 68.0%
Merced: 77.5%
Riverside: 78.6%
Santa Cruz: 79.7%</p>
<p>Logically you also have to consider where the schools are located. UCD is in northern California, a less populated area. If you examine the UC's (ruling out the big two of Cal and UCLA) you will see they tend to attract more students from the region in which they are located. UCI is a largely commuter school in a very populated area of so cal. This whole discussion is pretty lame since these schools are so statistically close.</p>
<p>HS counselor told me that for this year UC was attempting to place all the students who met the objective criteria (grades, classes, SAT scores) into at least one of the campuses and the Riverside and Santa Cruz campuses were the "safeties", if all else failed. </p>
<p>Since these criteria are so well laid out, there are not a lot of applicants to UC that don't meet the criteria. A lot of people self-select out becasue they know what's required up front. That compares to a lot of other places where the criteria is more subjective and there are more applicants who don't know what the rules are ahead of time.</p>
<p>In any event, any of the UC campuses outrank a lot of nationally known schools.</p>
<p>VoiceofReason makes a good point but he is not entirely correct.</p>
<p>If you go back, you will see that up until 2000 / 2001 UCD recieved more applications than UCI. <a href="http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/feb01/feb01_record_numbers.html#Campus%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/pathways/ucnotes/feb01/feb01_record_numbers.html#Campus</a></p>
<p>Now, UCI recieves about 15% more applications than UCD.
<a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/fall+2006+app_table+3.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/fall+2006+app_table+3.pdf</a> </p>
<p>A large part of this, is because UCI is recieving more applications from areas outside of the LA/OC area. In fact, the % of students applying to UCI who live in the surrounding Orange County has flattened out.</p>
<p>Sorry, VoiceofReason, but your reasoning is just not correct.</p>
<p>wow, UCSB's acceptance rate remained the same pretty much!</p>