UC Davis applications increase
By Laurel Rosenhall
lrosenhall@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Jan. 23, 2009
More students than ever have applied to attend UC Davis in the fall, according to figures released today by the university.
A record high of 51,298 high school seniors and college transfers have applied to the campus. That marks a 5.4 percent jump in applications compared with last year.
UC Davis and UC Riverside had the largest increases in application numbers among the nine undergraduate UC campuses. By contrast, the number of applications was down at UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara.
Across all campuses, applications for the fall were up 4.7 percent from last year, with 126,701 students applying to at least one UC school.