{"answer":"The University of California-Los Angeles receives more first-year applications than any other college in the country, 145,903 for the fall 2023 entering class, followed by the University of California-San Diego at 130,771 and the University of California-Berkeley at 125,910. The colleges on this list drew 5,631,673 applications between them.","as_of":"October 2026","date":"2026-10-15","dek":"The table holds first-year applications and the acceptance rate for each college, and applications are not people: one student can sit in dozens of these pools.","faq":[{"a":"The University of California-Los Angeles receives more first-year applications than any other college in the country, 145,903 for the fall 2023 entering class, followed by the University of California-San Diego at 130,771 and the University of California-Berkeley at 125,910.","q":"Which college in the US gets the most applications?"},{"a":"A huge pool does not mean a low acceptance rate.","q":"Is a college with more applications harder to get into?"},{"a":"An application is not a student. The same senior can sit in many of these pools, so the totals cannot be added up to count people.","q":"Can I add these application counts together to count students?"}],"findings":[{"h":"University of California campuses hold the top four places.","p":"The University of California-Los Angeles drew 145,903 applications. San Diego drew 130,771, Berkeley 125,910 and Irvine 121,101. Santa Barbara is next at 110,871, then Davis at 94,637. One form reaches every UC campus, and that is a big part of why the pools run this large."},{"h":"A huge pool does not mean a low acceptance rate.","p":"The University of California-Santa Barbara drew 110,871 applications and admitted 44.0 percent. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus drew 85,956 and admitted 54.2 percent. The University of California-Merced drew 67,891 and admitted 94.7 percent. Northeastern University drew fewer, 96,631, and admitted 5.6 percent."},{"h":"Private colleges fill the middle of the list, not the top of it.","p":"New York University is the highest private college at 113,578 applications. Northeastern University follows at 96,631. The University of Southern California is at 80,808. Harvard University, at 56,937, sits below a long run of state universities. One of them is Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, at 85,956."}],"license":"CC BY 4.0 \u2014 quote with attribution to Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach)","method":"The source is the federal IPEDS Admissions file for the fall 2023 entering class, the latest federal file, so a college's own page may show a newer number. The count is first-year applications reported by the college; transfer and graduate applications are excluded, and so are colleges that report no admissions data. Rows are the 100 colleges with the most first-year applicants in that file, ordered by applicant count. One student's applications appear in several rows, so the counts measure applications rather than people.","question":"Which colleges get the most applications?","related":[{"label":"Acceptance rates at the 100 most-applied-to colleges","url":"/research/acceptance-rates-100-colleges"},{"label":"Application fees at the 100 most-applied-to colleges","url":"/research/application-fees-100-colleges"},{"label":"SAT and ACT score ranges at the same 100 colleges","url":"/research/sat-act-ranges-100-colleges"}],"sections":[{"h2":"Why these pools got so big","paragraphs":["Two things drive the size. The first is one form that reaches many campuses. The University of California form covers every UC campus. The Common App covers hundreds of colleges with one set of essays. Adding a campus is a checkbox, not a new project.","The second is that students apply to more colleges than they once did. Every extra college a student adds is one more application in somebody's pool. So the pools keep growing even in years when the number of seniors does not."]},{"h2":"What the number is not","paragraphs":["An application is not a student. The same senior can sit in many of these pools, so the totals cannot be added up to count people.","A big pool is also not a verdict on quality or on difficulty. The rate column moves almost on its own. Some of the largest pools here admit most applicants. Some smaller pools admit very few. Read the two columns together or you will read the wrong thing."]},{"h2":"What a family should do with this","paragraphs":["Read the two columns side by side for every college on your kid's list. The count tells you how crowded the pool is. The rate tells you what share got in. A crowded pool with a high rate is a fine place to apply, and the crowd alone is no reason to skip it.","If the list leans on one system, one form covers every campus in it. Adding a campus costs little and spreads the odds across more answers. If the list leans on low-rate private colleges, each one means its own essays and its own fee. The real limit is your kid's writing time."]}],"slug":"most-applied-to-colleges","sources":[{"label":"IPEDS Admissions survey (ADM), 2023","url":"https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/"},{"label":"IPEDS data for these colleges, college by college","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/colleges"}],"tables":[{"columns":[{"fmt":"str","key":"college","label":"College"},{"fmt":"str","key":"state","label":"State"},{"fmt":"int","key":"applicants","label":"First-year applications"},{"fmt":"pct1","key":"admit_rate","label":"Acceptance rate"}],"h2":"The colleges that receive the most applications","intro":"Ordered by the number of first-year applications the college received.","link_base":"/colleges/","note":"First-year applications for the fall 2023 entering class, the latest federal file, so a college's own page may show a newer number. Transfer and graduate applications are not counted. 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