Increase in Applications

A record high nearly 49,000 high school seniors, prospective transfer students and others applied to study at the University of California, Davis, for fall 2008—a 15 percent increase over fall 2007.

A total of 48,653 students applied to UC Davis, compared with 42,311 applicants for fall 2007. There are 40,568 applicants for freshman status this fall, a 15.6 percent increase from last year's 35,088 and the largest percentage gain in freshman applications among UC's nine undergraduate campuses.

A total of 8,085 applicants are seeking to transfer from another college or university, for an 11.9 percent increase from last fall's 7,223.

The overall percentage gain in applications was 15 percent, second only to Merced, at 15.4 percent, among the UC campuses.

Applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups account for more than 21 percent of domestic freshman applicants and almost 19 percent of domestic transfer applicants from a California community college. Last year, they accounted for about 19 percent in each applicant group.

"We are happy and proud of the growing popularity of the UC Davis campus and the increased diversity and quality of our applicants," says Pamela Burnett, director of Undergraduate Admissions. "We believe these gains reflect, in addition to increases in the state's college-age demographics, greater public awareness of UC Davis through additional efforts we began three years ago."