Fall 2025 UC Application Opens Today
The Fall 2025 UC Application is open now. The application is somewhat optimized for mobile devices so you can fill it out on a mobile device in a pinch. But I recommend that you sit down at a computer to complete the application; the task is tedious enough without having to navigate on a small screen. Please remember that the application times out every 20 minutes; you must click “Save & continue” or “Sign out” to save your work within the 20-minute time frame.
Start the application as soon as possible to give yourself ample time to look through the application and gather the information you need to complete it. Check out my Get Ready for Fall 2025 UC Application post for helpful tips. You should also take a look at the consolidated application resources from the UCs:
I strongly recommend that you complete the UC Application in conjunction with or while you work on your responses to the Personal Insight Questions, since what you write for the Personal Insight Questions should SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE the information already contained in the various sections of the UC Application.
If you are a nontraditional applicant (sophomore or senior transfer, second baccalaureate), be sure to search the Check majors page to verify whether your major is open (or to see which majors are open for your status). You can also just start the application and pick your status (sophomore transfer, senior transfer, or second baccalaureate), then look in the “Campuses & majors” section – only the campuses/majors that are open for your status will be available for selection.
You may submit the completed application starting October 1 and the last day to submit the online application is November 30. Make sure you review the entire application thoroughly to spot and fix omissions or errors before submission. There were bugs in the application system in previous years (some bugs, like the payment gateway crashing periodically, just became a “known issue” with a workaround), so keep an eye out for online chatter of such problems.
Consider setting the weekend before Thanksgiving as a soft deadline so you can avoid the last-minute rush. The UC Application server has crashed on occasion due to heavy traffic during the last few days of November; save yourself the stress and submit far ahead of the deadline!
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What are some advantages of submitting application on first week of October vs November? Does the application gets better attention because of fewer number of applications received early on and thus increase chance of admission?
I have all of my clients submit the application between mid-October and mid-November. The UCs have experienced technical glitches when the submission cycle opened in the past (I mentioned some of them here). I noticed couple of minor glitches the first week of August after the UC Application opened this year so I’m not optimistic about the submission cycle being glitch-free when it opens in October.
Majority of the UCs review applications in December and the applications should be randomized for review (not reviewed in the order of submission). Berkeley starts review in November but early submissions tend to be used for training so those could be reviewed by hundreds of people, which some of my students found unnerving and wanted to avoid.