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CAMPUS ADMISSION STANDARDS

The University of California makes every effort to provide a place for all California resident applicants who meet the minimum UC admission requirements and file an application during the appropriate priority filing period.

In recent years, UC Davis has received more applications than the number of spaces available. When UC Davis cannot accept all eligible applicants, it uses standards that are more demanding than the minimum requirements to select students. These standards, which are called selection criteria, identify those students who have demonstrated the capacity for high academic achievement and who have a variety of other qualities that can contribute to the strength and diversity of the campus community.

The selection criteria described below will be used for applicants for the fall 1999 term. The criteria may differ for the winter and spring terms because enrollment targets and applicant qualifications change. Applicants for winter or spring should contact Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Services for more information.

Selection Guidelines

Each campus, in consultation with the Office of the President, develops enrollment targets that specify the number of new freshman and advanced standing students expected to enroll. Campuses that receive more applications than required to meet their enrollment target admit students using the criteria described below.

Freshman Applicants

Academic Criteria (used to select up to 60 percent of admits): UC Davis selects freshman applicants who have made the greatest effort to fully prepare academically as measured by the following criteria:

• 1. Calculated GPA on all academic courses completed in the "A to F" subject areas, with additional points given for honors courses. Maximum value is 4.00.
• 2. College entrance test scores—SAT-I or ACT and the three SAT-II test scores.
• 3. The number and content of college preparatory courses taken in academic subjects beyond UC minimums.
• 4. The number of university-approved honors or ad-vanced placement courses completed or in progress.

Supplemental Criteria (used to select up to 40 percent of admits): Applicants are evaluated using the selection criteria described above in conjunction with the following supplemental criteria:

• 1. Personal accomplishments, talents, school and community experiences or interests that will contribute to the educational environment of the campus.
• 2. Special circumstances that may have affected the applicant's life, including personal hardship and economic and educational disadvantage.

Transfer Applicants

Academic Criteria: Top priority for admission consideration is given to UC-eligible California community college junior level transfer applicants with 60 semester/90 quarter units of transfer work. Other UC-eligible transfer applicants will be admitted if space is available.

When applications far exceed the number of spaces available—for majors such as engineering, biological sciences, computer science, exercise science, international relations and psychology, for example—the completion of specific lower division preparatory courses for the major is required. Contact Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach Services for information on which majors are so impacted.

Supplemental Criteria: The same supplemental criteria described above for freshmen are used.

UC Davis 1998-99 Online General Catalog. Posted July 31, 1998.
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Keitha Hunter and Barbara Anderson, Editors

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