The UCLA admissions website hasn’t initiated 2021 numbers, so here’s the a link to University of California system UCOP Data
| Applications | Accepted | Acc. Rate | Est. Enroll | Approx Yield | % by Res. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Resident | 84,148 | 8,369 | 9.9% | 4,436 | 53.0% | 71.8% |
| Out of State | 33,383 | 4,636 | 13.9% | 1,159 | 25.0% | 18.8% |
| International | 21,932 | 1,999 | 9.1% | 580 | 29.0% | 9.4% |
| Total | 139,463 | 15,004 | 10.8% | 6,175 | 41.2% | 100.0% |
I estimated yield for each resident cohort based on recent history. This resulted in my guessimating that residents of CA would ~ 72% of the freshman class, which may be a bit low. My estimate that 53% yield for CA residents though seemingly high based on recent past, might in fact be low for them based on university estimates for this year. The 25% yield of OOS students might also be a bit high – it may end up being 23-24%. The internationals are a hard read because their yields have been all over the map.
But the point is that the acceptance rate based on the link shows at 10.8%, and these were given by the UCOP website. In admissions decisions it read approximately that “less than 1 in 9 were accepted for the class entering 2021.” 1/9 of course is = 11.1%, so the 10.8% A/R is on point.
The past two years of acceptance rate were 12.4% and 14.4% for the respective years of 2019 and 2020. The 14.4% for last year’s class was elevated, of course, because of the virus. Edit: and of course, the A/R dropped quite a bit this year because of the massive increase in applications.