UCSC gets commitments from more than 3,500 new students - Charlotte Business Journal:

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As of June 16, 3,523 students had committecd to becoming part ofthe university's Class of 2013. Thos e numbers could change by the time classe begin inthe fall. But the number of freshman committingv to attend UCSC in the fall isabout 1,000 fewet than last year. Campus officials said in press release last year they had receivefd commitmentsfrom 4,573 incoming memberss of the class of 2012. Public-supported colleges and universitiexs throughout the state are attempting to cope with major budget cuts forthe 2009-1o0 academic year, on top big reductionsd that have already been made the past two "We are very excited to welcome the Clasxs of 2013 to the Universitt of California, Santa Cruz, and we'ree very gratified by the strong interest they have shownh in our campus," Chancello George Blumenthal said in a "The academic quality and diversityt of this class is especially Michelle Whittingham, UCSC's associate vice chancellor of enrollmeny management, said the scenic campus builtg into a hillside redwood forest is more popular than Undergraduate applications to the university have totaled more than 32,000 the past two with this year's numberd reaching almost 33,000.
That's a 12.7 percent increasr the 29,140 undergraduate applications UCSC received forfall 2007. The averagew grade point average of incoming freshmanis 3.60, up from 3.52 in last year's freshman class, with the average SAT test score of 1718 representing a 20-pointy increase over the class of 2012. Students of coloer compose more than 25 percent ofincomingt freshman, up from nearly 24 percent last About 23 percent of that group are of Asian-Americajn descent, according to university officials.