Ethnicity/Race in Admissions at UCLA!?

If UCLA outlawed Affirmative Action and does not consider race in admissions, how do they create such a balanced and diverse class each year? It seems off to me that a whopping 23% of the population of UCLA is Hispanic if this information was not known while reviewing the application. Does anybody understand this situation? Thank you!

My D is OOS asian there. From my understanding, blacks and hispanics are underrepresented compared to CA population, asian are overrepresented. Weighting of certain nonracial criteria such as 1st generation college helps some applicants. Numbers are large enough to produce similar results over time, that is how statistics works.

It works out that way because the majority of students at in state and California is diverse so the law of averages kicks in. Asians and white students do make up the overwhelming majority though.

I believe in the contents of the application (i.e., the activities such as clubs, essays, parents with no college, address/zip code, etc.) can sometime give a hint or insight of the ethnicity/race of the applicant.

Thank you all! @DHMchicago @10s4life @UCBUSCalum … hopefully the NHRP let’s them know;))

I remember putting something in my essay like “years of ESL classes helped tremendously with my English, but wiped out almost all of the Spanish I had learned by growing up with my Mexican immigrant grandparents”. Subtle, I know. I was still rejected the first time I applied though. I did eventually get in as a transfer student. A lot of transfers want to attend UCLA, so that might help the diversify the population as well.