<p>I've heard rumors that due to budget cuts in California, out of state students will be accepted easier into UCLA in part because they pay much more in tuition. Is there any validity to this?</p>
<p>I’m not sure if it ties into budget cuts, but according to the 2012 freshmen profile: ~18% of in-state students were admitted while ~30% of OOS were admitted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof12.htm[/url]”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof12.htm</a></p>
<p>Thanks for showing me those statistics. On a relevant note, what would my chances look like as an OOS white male with a 2200 SAT (2030 right now, I have a long time to bring it up), 3.68 UW GPA (no idea what my UC GPA would be, I’m a rising junior. My freshman year was terrible though), 2 varsity sports, and very likely a NMF?</p>
<p>If you scroll on down the Profile of Admitted Freshman that ^shazam02 provided the link for in the above reply, you’ll see that the admit rate for applicants in the 3.30 to 3.69 UW GPA bracket was 5.79%.</p>
<p>UCLA is “numbers driven” for admissions BUT numbers alone do not guarantee admissions. With over 10000 OOS applicants, there is plenty of admissions competition. The good news is that your challenging freshmen year with “terrible grades” won’t be part of the GPA calculation AND as you are a rising junior you have time raise you GPA. Your target test scores are in the ballpark if you look at the profile. There are a couple of things to remember though when looking at the numbers:</p>
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<li><p>GPA for the UC system is calculated using different criteria, e.g. only the sophomore and junior grades in a-g courses are used, pluses and minuses are not considered, semester grades are used, a limit of 8 AP/honors courses for the extra 1 point credit, etc. See-
[University</a> of California - Calculating GPA](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#2]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/q-and-a/calculating-gpa/index.html#2)</p></li>
<li><p>Breakout information is not provided with respect to what the OOS test scores or GPA numbers are for that applicant group. That is, you don’t know if the OOS applicants average profile “numbers” were higher, lower or the same as the in-state applicant pool. (FWIW nor do you know what the international applicant pool looked like which has a 33% admit rate). If you assume the OOS pool has the same GPA and test scores as the entire applicant pool, you can see in from the 2012 Preliminary Admitted Profile that the average applicant UW GPA was 3.55 and the average admitted student UW GPA was 3.88. </p></li>
<li><p>SAT I/ACT test score averages in the profile are calculated on all scores submitted not just the highest score attained. In contrast, SAT II test scores in the profile are calculated using the “best” subject test submitted and its associated “highest” score.</p></li>
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