Dustin Noji, left, director of admissions at UC Merced, and Joe Hernandez, superintendent of Dinuba Unified School District, make the Merced Automatic Admissions Program official. At Dinuba Unified, ...

In fact, by the time the application season ended just before midnight on Dec. 2, the number of applications to UC Merced was ...

In 2017, UC Merced offered admission to 17,389 applicants; in 2022, it offered admission to 29,456 applicants, according to UC Merced data provided to SFGATE. Advertisement.

UC Riverside’s application surge this year has pushed it ahead of UC Santa Cruz, which saw an 8% dip in applications this year. UC Merced still lags behind the two campuses but has significantly ...

UC admissions see slight decrease, but one Central California school saw a big increase. ... The Merced campus saw the largest spike in applications with an increase of over 57%.

Visalia Unified and UC Merced signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the Merced Automatic Admission Program on Oct. 28, making VUSD the ninth school district to partner with the university.

Despite that, UC Merced’s director of admissions, Dustin Noji, shared preliminary data from Merced Union High’s inaugural year. Of 500 juniors in the district who met initial qualifications, ...

UC Merced opened in 2005 so there is no data prior to 2005 for this campus. Beginning in 2011, Merced invited all California resident referrals to be considered for admission to their campus and only ...

It launched at Merced Union High School District in 2021, where the first cohort of students will be attending UC Merced this fall. Dustin Noji, the director of admissions, said 202 students ...