University of California-Merced's admit rate has risen 18.6 percentage points across the 3 reported years on file.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | — | — | 67.5% | — | — |
| 2020-2021 | 84.8% | 1,951 | 68.7% | 86.0% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 72.0% | 2,105 | 69.5% | 85.0% | — |
| 2018-2019 | 66.2% | 2,217 | 66.0% | 81.3% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools University of California-Merced applicants most commonly also apply to range from 57.9% admit to 93.6% admit — a 35.6 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 11 percentage points.
University of California-Merced's 67.5% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 11.1 pp.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
5 of 5 cross-admit schools are in CA — University of California-Merced draws applicants weighing it against in-state and adjacent-state alternatives, not coastal or selective national peers.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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