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Monday, August 3, 2026

Moving Apart


From SFGATE: A record number of California students were offered admission to the University of California this fall, but the gains weren’t spread evenly across the system, with some campuses defying the trend, new preliminary data shows. The overall fall 2026 California student admission rate for the UC’s nine undergraduate campuses was 78%, compared with 77% the previous year. The system accepted a total of 153,272 first-year students, both in-state and out-of-state students, the UC said. 

One of the most competitive campuses, UC Berkeley, however, didn’t follow the system’s upward trend, admitting approximately 4% fewer first-year California students than the year before. The Bay Area campus offered admission to 9,445 such students for the fall, compared with 9,852 in 2025, according to UC data... Meanwhile, UC Berkeley’s biggest rival, UCLA, moved in the opposite direction, admitting more California students than last year. The campus admitted 9,109 California resident students this fall compared with 8,589 in fall 2025, the data shows...

Full story at https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/admissions-uc-data-2026-22368094.php

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