Throttling back on growth, UC San Diego admits fewer than 25 percent of freshmen applicants for fall
For a second straight year, UC San Diego admitted fewer than 25 percent of its freshman applicants to help the school catch up with massive growth that produced a critical shortage of housing, lab space and classrooms.to 32,314 of the 130,830 students — 24.7 percent — who sought to enroll as freshmen this fall. The admission rate was about 23.7 percent one year earlier.
Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said at the time that UCSD needed to shift more of its focus to adding infrastructure. Since then, the construction boom has only gotten bigger.
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