UCI gets record 102,210 applications for fall 2017
UC Irvine announced Monday that the university has broken its record for applications for a quarter, with more than 100,000 applicants for fall 2017 so far.
The number broke the record set last year, when UCI received nearly 98,000 applications from aspiring freshmen and transfer students for fall 2016.
Among the 102,210 applications for fall 2017 the school has received to date, 85,053 are prospective freshmen and 17,157 are potential transfers.
Of the freshmen applicants, 63,091 are California residents, the university said.
“These spectacular results represent exactly what we have set out to achieve — sending the message to all California residents that an exceptional UC education is accessible to them and that UCI is where they want to be,” UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a statement.
The official application count will be available after the transfer application deadline Jan. 3, the university said.
UCI has racked up the third-highest number of freshmen applications for fall 2017 in the University of California system, behind UC San Diego, which has 88,451, and UCLA, which has 102,177.
Among the 10 UC schools, UCI garnered the most Chicano and Latino freshmen applicants, with 23,463, and the third-highest number of African American freshmen applicants, with 3,220.
“The outcomes we hoped for have now been realized with crossing the 102,000 threshold for applications, and this would not have been achieved without the hard work and outreach of our admissions staff and our messaging about UCI being both accessible and affordable — a magnificent place to fulfill their academic dreams and aspirations,” Thomas Parham, vice chancellor for students affairs, said in a statement.
As an example of that outreach, the university said Parham visited Compton High School last month for the fifth year of Achieve UC, a program that reaches out to schools and communities that have UC-eligible students but send relatively few to those universities.
According to the UCI catalog, the university’s basic tuition for resident undergraduates for the 2016-17 school year is $11,220.
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