Freshman admission by discipline

Use caution in drawing conclusions from this information. Consult with the admission office for additional information. The data should be used as a general guide to selectivity and not as a predictor of a student’s chances for admission to a particular campus or major.

While freshman applicants to UC indicate a proposed primary and alternate major for each campus on their application, major choice is generally not a factor in freshman admission. Some campuses and colleges, however, do admit students directly into individual majors or may offer admission to a student with a different major than the one(s) in the application, or even as undeclared. Also, students may change their major between the time they are admitted and when they enroll at a campus. (These differences are not reflected on this dashboard.) . Several majors across a campus, possibly in different schools/colleges, may be grouped together, which may mask the differences in the degree of competition for admission among them.

Figures may not match campus data exactly due to definitional differences and the timing of reporting.

Click on categories (i.e., broad discipline, campus, fall term) to make a selection. The bar graph on top left will compare that selected group to all applicants to the campus. The table on the top right will compare across campuses by broad discipline.

Notes

GPA shown here is the weighted, capped, high school GPA (where extra points up to 8 semesters, no more than 4 in the 10th grade are added to the GPA). See: https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/freshman-requirements/gpa-requirement.html

If the GPAs were sorted from low to high, the median would be the one in the middle. The 25th to 75th percentile indicate the range of GPAs for the middle half of the admits. In other words, 25 percent of the admits have a GPA lower than the 25th percentile figure, and 25 percent of the admits have a GPA higher than the 75th percentile figure. If there are only a small number of admits in a category, these figures may be the same.

The admit rate is the percentage of applicants who are admitted. The yield rate is the percentage of admits who enroll.

Some figures are masked due to small cell sizes.

Some applicants, admits, and enrollees have unknown discipline due to data differences between the application system and UC Data Warehouse.


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