University of California releases Fall 2006 application data

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<p><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/06app.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/06app.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Most interseting is this data:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/fall+2006+app_table+3.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2006/fall+2006+app_table+3.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Wow, huge increases across the board in terms of applicants, with Berkeley having 13% more freshman applicants, and Los Angeles having 12.2% more, and Irvine having 11.4% more. Transfer applicants dropped at all schools except Berkeley. Looks like there will be a lot of competition for freshman this year.</p>

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<p>But remember, you can have the almost the same number of applicants but more applications</p>

<p>so if you have 1000 students applying, and in the past 1000 applied to 2 schools each, that is 2000 application, and this year those same students applied to 3 schools each, that is three thousand
applications, but the same number of initial students, so competition is rough, but the numbers don't tell the whole story</p>

<p>It looks like 6000plus more applicants in the pool of over 100,000, a 6% increase which doesn't seem that outragous (if I am reading form correctly and understanding terms)</p>

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<p>There's another piece of data in another chart that says that says the average number of campuses applied to has stayed the same from 2004-2006, at 3.6 campuses per applicant.</p>

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<p>which means more applicants are applying and not just the same number of applicants applying to more campuses. </p>

<p>the total applicants (people who applied to at least one campus) was 100,138 last year and this year is 106,784, which proves the increase in applicants and not just applications.</p>

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<p>Interesting... :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>I noticed the average SATs and GPAs have fallen for every single campus.</p>

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<p>yeah, thanks to the new sat.</p>

<p>the guinea pig class is always the roughest.</p>

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<p>are those gpa's total high school (fresh-jun) or UC only?</p>

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<p>Yeah, are the GPA the UC GPA or Unweighted GPA?</p>

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<p>So what about us outastaters? It doesnt really mention us. Is that because we have no chance at admission?</p>

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<p>you don't have no chance.</p>

<p>it just means that california residents are given priority over out of staters.</p>

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<p>thats a given...
Thats why the C stands for CALIFORNIA</p>

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<p>The GPAs can only be UC (10th/11th grades) are grades are self reported and you're only asked to report those grades (plus if you took math/language in middle school). Transcripts aren't sent until after notification of admission.</p>

<p>What I find interesting is the average stats for applicants vs. for who gets admitted. Lots of wishing and hoping on the part of many.</p>

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<p>So what does the lower SAT scores across the board mean for the class of 2010?</p>

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<p>since there are a lot more applicants this year but the stats seemed lower, I think the average SATs and GPAs for this year's admits will stay the same as last year's (usually they go up every year).</p>