<p>Higher</a> numbers of out-of-state, foreign students apply to UC - latimes.com</p>
<p>"The most popular UC campus again was UCLA, with 72,626 freshman applicants, up 18.1% from last year. UC Berkeley was next with 61,661, up 16.5%, and UC San Diego had 60,819, up 13.8%."</p>
<p>Great. FML.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>This is great news for us students. Hopefully they admit more out of state/international students so we can have a more unique and diverse campus - not to mention the increase in funding they would provide us. As far as how competitive it looks to get in, I don’t think it will be that much harder because most of these kids probably applied just because it is UCLA. Basically, even though the number of applicants went up, I highly doubt that the quality of the pool went up drastically to make any significant difference. If anything, maybe we will see the admission rate decrease which makes our school look much better in rankings and such, but I doubt actual GPA and SAT scores will spike or anything. What really affects the competition is the increase in international students. Students coming from China and India often have very impressive academic marks. Their hopes and aspirations are to come to a name university in the states so they take their application more seriously than the average UCLA applicant. So unless you were one of the students who applied because you thought SAT2’s are optional and you didn’t need to submit them, you should be fine. If you didn’t submit SAT2’s then the sheer number of international applicants puts you in a decent disadvantage from the very beginning.</p>
<p>^Tell me about it- we NEED more diversity. If I hear one more kid proudly announcing that he is from Rancho Cucamonga I will put a bullet (or some type of projectile) into something… (not that there is anything specifically wrong with rancho.)</p>
<p>It’s 91,200 actually. My friend’s mother works at ucla and that’s the final number.</p>
<p>^ i think the 91k includes transfer applicants. The 72k is just for freshman.</p>
<p>That would make sense. It’s still scary seeing how large that number is and seeing how only a small percentage will get in.</p>
<p>~16k applicants is not that small of a number of acceptees so it shouldn’t be that hard for aspiring bruins.</p>
<p>Especially since before last year they usually only accepted about 13k</p>
<p>@golden and thiscouldbeheaven, with the need for funds, criticism of large classes etc. would you think that UCLA would start to be “more selective” with this batch of applicants? Instead of accepting 15-16k, they’ll accept let’s say 9-12?</p>