More than 80,000 apply to be UC Berkeley freshmen

Year after year, for more than a decade, applications for admission to UC Berkeley's freshman class reached record highs. Not this year. Student demand for a seat at the university remains very high, just not high enough to be record-breaking again. The number of applicants dropped from 89,580 for fall 2018 to 87,353 for fall 2019. The reason for the drop is not clear, but the decline is in line with a slight decrease in the total combined number of applications to the nine UC campuses with undergraduate programs. The University of California Office of the President released application data for all UC campuses today. California residents continue to submit the most freshman applications; more than 50,000 applied to Berkeley this year.