Fall 2012 UCLA Acceptance Rate?

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<p>Just curious, what is the acceptance rate for incoming freshmen this year, with over 90,000 applicants and all..</p>

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<p>Although the letter said 90k applicants, it included transfer and graduate applicants. There were 72,626 applicants. UCLA admits 12-15k students. Assuming it’s around 15k, admission rate is 20.6%, which is lower than 26% of last year’s rate.</p>

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<p>people have been telling me today that it was 7% this year. crazyy, i know.</p>

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<p>false. 90K applicants include transfer and freshmen applicants for undergraduate admission only.</p>

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<p>But what I am wondering is how many ppl were waitlisted. The UCLA website says that 57000 were rejected, but it seems like there are quite a few of those remaining 15600 who were waitlisted, and that would technically make the admit rate lower than 15.6/72.</p>

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<p>If you look on their website at how many first-time freshmen applied an how many were accepted and calculate it (like a boss) then yes, it is about 7.4%. And I am very happy to be one of them(:</p>

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<p>Blondenerd12, Can you give a link?</p>

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<p>@blondenerd12 ok there, if you’re going to UCLA, you should know that the retention(enrolling) amount-application ratio DOES NOT EQUAL the accepted amount-application ratio. Not everyone’s first choice is UCLA and thankfully the UCLA admission staff understands this so they accept more people than there are spots in anticipation that others are going to go to Harvard, Stanford, USC (haha just had to say it) etc. They accept about 20-24% of the 71000 or so (the 90000 figure includes transfer which is about 20000, which I don’t have to tell you is a very large number since everyone applies to UCLA as a transfer especially from SMC etc.). Again, the total enrolled amount is about 7% the total accepted is about 20-25ish% (which is the more important figure).</p>

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<p>Oh **** my bad, your right. Their website was a bit misleading. Still at like a 20% acceptance rate, I’m a pretty happy camper. Sorry for the misinfo</p>

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<p>UCLA rejects go to SUC.</p>

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<p>UCLA accepted 21.3 percent for the class of 2016, the LA Times reported today.</p>

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<p>here’s the article talked about above if anyone wants to take a look at it</p>

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<p>It’s nice to see that UCLA’s nearly as selective as berkeley now. I imagine to surpass it in the coming years…</p>

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<p>SeattleTW, actually its 17.7% as u can see from the article</p>

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<p>@Dray45
17.7% is for California residents only.</p>

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<p>As a junior this scares every fiber of my being for next year.</p>

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<p>Uh, I don’t think the acceptance rate is 21% for this year… because</p>

<p>72600 applied - 57000 rejected = 15600 admits & waitlists (which is about 21.5%)
and I heard that 2900 people decided to accept the waitlist position, so
15600 - 2900 = 12700 admits at the most because not EVERYONE accepted the waitlist position. yep.</p>

<p>soo, the acceptance rate is more like 17.4% or lower I guess? Correct me if I’m wrong!</p>

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<p>@cathieex3</p>

<p>I think they counted transfer students as well.</p>

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<p>@Labyrinthus</p>

<p>I don’t think they counted transfer students because the decisions for transfer students have not been released yet?</p>

<p>Hm… and I just checked Ms. Sun’s blog, and she says UCLA waitlisted around 5000 people… which means, around 10700 people got admitted as of now (~14%) … Something is definitely wrong here lol</p>

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<p>Apparently, the 15k are all admits =)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I have not received an email from UCLA, are they done with their decisions? maybe I should call admissions?</p>