<p>UCLA's admission rate increased to around 25% this year. So does anyone know if Berkeley's also went up and if so, by how much?</p>
<p>I would like to see where it says UCLA’s admission rate increased to 25%.</p>
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<p>Look through the list and you will eventually hit UCLA.</p>
<p>Not that I am calling BS on a source such as the Huffington Post but I have heard numerous reports of UCLA’s admission rate being from 19%-21% but 25% sounds absolutely ridiculous. I don’t even know if that’s possible unless they are taking the averages from transfer and freshman and combining them which is my guess but then that is very very misleading and unfair of them. I don’t think there physically can be a way for UCLA to admit 25% of 62k applicants knowing that they yield 3X% of those. There wouldn’t physically be enough space. Unless like I said they are combining transfer acceptance with frosh.</p>
<p>Well, California is in trouble and UCLA (all the UC’s, really) are experiencing budget cuts. They probably accepted more students this year because they suspected that their yield would decrease.</p>
<p>Edit: Never mind. :P</p>
<p>I, too, think that the 25% admit rate reported for UCLA isn’t accurate. I was expecting something like 21-22% admit rate for UCLA and 19-20% admit rate for Berkeley this year. Both schools admitted more OOS and Int’l applicants this year though. In one of the top schools in England that usually send 1 or 2 grads to Berkeley, has 11 students admitted this year. One prestigious high school in the Philippines where there weren’t any successful applicants to Berkeley since more than a decade ago has 3 students admitted to Berkeley this year.</p>
<p>Yeah, so I’m guessing the schools admitted less in-state students. I feel sorry for them, because the people who live in Cali are probably the ones who have been dreaming about Berkeley/UCLA for their lifetimes. :(</p>
<p>^ But only about 13 or 14% of the freshmen at UCLA last year were OOS. It’s Berkeley that had a substantial and sudden increased – something like 23%, from something like 10% the year before. The increase, as I understand it, was the result of the robust marketing campaign of Berkeley to foreign schools. I heard Berkeley sent marketing representatives to Europe, South America and Middle East to capture a bigger market share of the many rich students in those countries who’d like to study in the US. Berkeley wants those students as they are full-paying students. </p>
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Not at all true. You’d be amazed a lot of students in other States and other countries (especially in Europe) have been dreaming of attending Berkeley too, maybe more so than Cali students, its just that many of them can’t afford Berkeley’s expensive tuition. Remember that the reason why the Ivies and other top privates have been winning in the cross admit battles against Berkeley is because Berkeley does not offer scholarship/grants to OOS/Int’l whilst the Ivies do. </p>
<p>I think it’s about time that Berkeley would admit more OOS / International Students. I supposed their stats aren’t any poorer than those In-State applicants.</p>
<p>So does anyone have any solid information about Berkeley’s acceptance rate this year?</p>
<p>Confidential and unofficial, so take it as something I was told off-the-cuff by someone who should be in the know-
“Just under” 21%
Yes, including Spring Admits and OOS and Internationals.</p>
<p>But sooner or later the real hard number will surface somewhere. The University of California has always published these numbers eventually. Try getting these hard facts from Oxford or Cambridge! :(</p>
<p>Just a hair under 21% for fall freshmen, 25.5% for fall and spring combined.</p>
<p>Link please! ^</p>
<p>What is this?
33% for UCLA…?</p>
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<p>i talked to a financial aid counselor and residency advisor at berkeley and they said that every uc school got hit with about a billion dollars of budget cuts and therefore berkeley admitted more out of state students this year because they’d get more money from their tuition. not sure the exact percentage of acceptance, guessing a little above 20%</p>
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<p>I would like to point out that Oxbridge publish their acceptance rates quite prominently… and the acceptance rates for “normal” subjects (i.e. not ultracompetitive ones like law, medicine, PPE, math) hover around 25%.</p>
<p>As for Berkeley, I’m really interested to see exactly how much the percentage increase is for OOS/internationals. The overall acceptance rate might have actually increased because of that, since OOS/internationals don’t get so much aid. Although when you balance it again budget cuts it might just even out.</p>
<p>^mick</p>
<p>At the welcome to newly admitted frosh session at Cal Day last Saturday the speaker said that about 25% of 53,000 applicants were accepted. Appears to jive with the data posted by m3csl1994.</p>
<p>Yes, 25% fits neatly with what UCLA has already put out also, so I think when actual numbers are out it will be around this.</p>
<p>As to Oxbridge, they put out the numbers for different colleges/courses etc.- but university-wide stats require we do the work. Thanks meakname.</p>
<p>Yep UCLA did accept 25% according to their website:
25.29%
which consists of: 22.66% California residents
33.23% out of state
41.55% international</p>
<p>As you can see, their accepting waaay more out of state and international people to help offset the budget deficits. I’d imagine Berkeley is doing something similar.
[Profile</a> of Admitted Freshmen, Fall 2011 - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof11.htm]Profile”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof11.htm)</p>
<p>edit: Interestingly though, for UCLA at least, the average SAT score accepted this year is actually higher than it was two years ago (2,029 vs 2001) as are the average ACT scores (30 vs 29). Average GPAs are the exact same. Seems like there may have been stronger applicants.</p>
<p>Aha! Found it:
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2011/fall_2011_admissions_table1.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2011/fall_2011_admissions_table1.pdf</a></p>
<p>UCLA: 25.3% acceptance rate
Berkeley: 25.5%</p>