At the beginning of the fall 2008 quarter, total freshmen enrollment at UC Santa Cruz tallied in around 4,573 students.

This fall 2009, campus admission officials estimate that number will drop to under 3,850.

What’s the budgetary bottom line of this decrease?

About 2,675,100 fewer registration and measure dollars and 735,291 fewer educational fee dollars coming into UCSC this school year piled atop ongoing UC system-wide budget cuts.