While applications are available from the university and through high school counselors, the quickest way to obtain one is over the World Wide Web through Pathways. In addition to the online application, students can also download the application to a printer, fill it out and return it by mail. Students who chose the electronic application may work on it at school, home, the library or from any computer connected to the Internet. Instructions for completing the online application and filing it are available at the website. Mail-in applicants must enclose their fees with their application but online applicants will be billed by the university.
Pathways is more than an electronic filing center.
At the website, prospective students, parents and counselors can find information on all aspects of a UC education, including profiles of the campuses and information about fees, financial aid, academic programs, on-campus living and social life. UC officials are also hoping to see an increase in the number of community college transfers, who also must file for admission during November. Slightly more than 10,000 transfer students enrolled at UC this fall, with about 8,600 coming from one of the state's community colleges. Transfer numbers have declined since 1993. Hoping to counter that trend, UC and the California Community Colleges entered into an agreement last year to increase transfers by more than a third, to 14,500 students by 2005-2006.