<p>More than 4,900 students admitted as freshmen for fall 2006 have sent in letters stating their intent to enroll at UCLA.</p>
<p>UCLA admitted 12,215 for the fall 2006 freshman class from among the record 47,300 applications received. There were 4,928 students who responded to UCLA's offers of admission indicating their plans to enroll.</p>
<p>The data show that the overall number of underrepresented students Native Americans, African Americans and Chicanos/Latinos declined slightly. The number of African American students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen at UCLA was 95, down from 126 last year.</p>
<p>"The low number of African American students who have stated their intentions to enroll at UCLA has reached crisis proportion," UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale said. "It must be understood that there are no easy solutions. As you know, Proposition 209 prohibits the use of ethnicity or race in outreach or admissions decisions. But, we need to do everything we can within the law to address this crisis."</p>
<p>Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) is an interim step in the overall application, admission and enrollment cycle. An admitted student submits an SIR following admission to signal his or her intent to accept the admission offer and enroll at UCLA. Final enrollment figures for the fall term typically are available in January of the following year.</p>
<p>WOW! Can you say low admission rates for the next 10 years?! Flopsy what do you think? My money says that 25 percent acceptance rate will go down to >20% for sure.</p>
<p>Yeah, I doubt it will go down very much, they've realized that more people are graduating faster and are therefore allowing more to come in it seems.</p>
<p>at least UCLA doesnt have the crisis that davis does (with something like 900 more than expected)... ucla expected around this number, so we should be ok.</p>
<p>Are you talking about men's or women's pride??:)</p>
<p>Did anybody have an explanation why the yield rate is higher than expected? Is it the same reason as UC Davis does? Because I am a Trojan, my natural guess would be UCLA admited a lot of more students on the low end in the applicant pool, who can't get into better schools:)</p>
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<p>Haha, this was pretty funny.</p>
<p>"Guys, we have a crisis! The number of African American freshmen has dropped below 100! I'm raising the African-American alert to level orange!"</p>
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<p>No idea. I did see a few people choose UCD over Berkeley in the UCD forum. It could be that UCLA admitted many people who didn't get in anywhere better. OR, it could be that those who were using UCLA as a match/safety didn't get in their reaches, because top schools have gotten more selective, so they just opted for UCLA.</p>
<p>Someone from the University of South Carolina (or Southern California, same difference) shouldn't be talking about not getting into better schools... because why would you pay 40k to go to a crappy school? Because you got in nowhere good.</p>
<p>And at any rate, UCLA's statistics for the admitted class show increasing SAT scores and GPA... the difference between the UCLA admit class and the Cal admit class was 4 points on the SAT and .05 in GPA. So no, sorry to break it to you, but the higher yield was not due to an admitted class of lesser quality.</p>
<p>Thank jhype for not being that harsh when getting back at me:) I believe UCLA's new class will be a quality one, but I would wait for enrollment data, not admission data, to say if the quality increases or not.</p>
<p>I would also say most of students paying 40K to go to USC are the ones who really have goals and determination, the ones who really want to achieve something with their education, not someone who just go cheap. </p>
<p>BTW I applaud someone in another "Record ***" thread critizing UCLA irresponsible as a public university. They will be, and are the Bruins who will earn honors for UCLA.</p>
<p>Are you saying that I just "went cheap" because I came to UCLA instead of burdening myself and my family with 45k in loans at schools like Stanford, Brown, Penn, etc.? I hardly think so. For some of us, such as myself, my parents were going to sell the house in order to pay for that Ivy League name. But I didn't feel like absolutely killing my family, since my Dad is a carpenter and my mother is a teaching assistant... therefore I opted for a quality public education, which in my eyes, is no lesser. I'm glad that you are able to pay 40k for your education, but for me it certainly wasn't worth it when a UCLA education is more bang for the buck. I hope that shelling out 40k helps you sleep better at night.</p>