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UC San Diego Is the NO 5 AAU

espite its status as California's second city, San Diego (pop 2.5 mil) has never been considered an Asian population center on a par with even third-ranked San Jose (1 mil) or fourth-ranked San Francisco (760,000). But UC San Diego in the golf-and-surf resort of La Jolla hosts a fast-growing Asian population that secures its place as yet another Asian American mecca of higher education.
     Asians are 41.9% of the current freshman class of 3,600. The total undergraduate population of about 17,000, is 37% Asian (including Filipinos who, for some reason, are counted separately by the university). Whites are 45.2% of the freshman class and about 47% of the undergraduate population. The current year's freshman class is the first selected without affirmative action and represents a 9% jump in Asian and White students.
     For the upcoming fall 1999 quarter, UC San Diego pulled in 32,233 freshman applications, a 13.9% jump over 1998. That puts UCSD second behind UCLA's 35,500. UC Berkely, whose prestige has historically ensured it the most, fell to third place, though its enrollees still top the elite UC applicant pool in average GPAs and SAT scores. The 9-campus UC system currently accepts the top 5% of California high school graduates.
     These numbers make UC San Diego 4th among the nation's top 25 universities in terms of the total number of Asian students, behind UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine.