<p>I'm just curious because I heard a lot of people from my school got rejected. Also, UCLA went down from like 22% to 8%</p>
<p>Last year, the admit rate was about 70%, according to a packet about UCs I got this year. I don’t think they’ll release stats for acceptances this year for a little while. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s down to something like 60-65%.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it’s down even more though because barely anyone got rejected last year</p>
<p>we really are the unlucky class of '13 if the rates are going down so drastically</p>
<p>Yeah, bad time to be entering college because of the economy. On the other hand, by the time we’re out of college…hopefully things will be better.</p>
<p>Also, in past years 80% was the admit rate. Some of the reason it’s gone down is that UCSC is suddenly not so much a “loser” UC. :P</p>
<p>yeah, haha. i’m kind of disappointed I didn’t get in anywhere else, but really excbied anyway because UCSC was my second choice. I think everyone who got into any UC should be happy though judging with how things are this year</p>
<p>27,247, approximately 600 fewer than last year.</p>
<p>We admitted 17,249 students to enroll a class of 3,500 students. Our enrollment target is lower than the number of freshmen who enrolled for fall 2008.</p>
<p>9,998 freshman applicants were denied admission.</p>
<p>Taken directly from the Information for First-Year Students Not Offered Admission FAQ.</p>
<p>So, that means there admit rate is about 63.31%, nice call Liesel</p>
<p>I was of the 9,998 not admitted =(, but I am appealing, I read somewhere else that the appeal rate is about 7%, so…wish me luck?</p>
<p>Yup, that makes perfect sense.
I heard that last year there was a sudden jump in # of people who chose to enroll in UCSC, and they got caught off guard by it. So no surprise that they would aim for a lower enrollment target.
I’m surprised that the number of applicants was lower, though.</p>
<p>^ The number of applicants was lower due to the economy. A lot of people are choosing to stay at home and choose a college close to where they live. Santa Cruz isn’t considered a metropolitan area, so they had a decrease in applications because of this. Haha, I read it in the newspaper.</p>
<p>Reasons I want to go so badly…
UC with a Game Design degree
Away from home experience
Visited the campus, its beautiful</p>
<p>I hope your appeal is successful arkhound.</p>
<p>Thank you Syrius</p>
<p>What I was really suprised about was that the acceptance rate at davis was around 11%…</p>
<p>^ That is not the acceptance rate. There is a yield rate as well. Is more towards the low 40%, just my guess.</p>
<p>^Cali’s right.</p>
<p>You need to take applications times acceptance rate times yield rate to get enrollment.</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon for a university to say something like “we received 50,000 for 5000 freshmen slots,” which makes it sound like they have a 10% admission rate. But what’s really more likely is that they accept 20,000 applicants (40% acceptance) and then have a 25% yield rate, which results in having 5000 new freshmen.</p>