<p>From</a> the UCLA website:
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For Fall Quarter 2012, UCLA received over 72,600 freshman applications for a class of just over 5,400 new freshmen. We had to deny almost 57,000 applicants.
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<p>The 7% figure comes from using 5400 as the number of applicants admitted, but that number is actually the goal for the size of the class UCLA wants to enroll.</p>
<p>From UCLA's data, the number of applicants admitted or waitlisted is around 72600-57000 = 15600, or 21.5% of the applicants. Admitted students must make up a significant portion of that, so the admit rate is not even close to 7% - it is almost certainly in the 15-20% range.</p>
<p>(I realize that this is in the other thread, but people tend to read thread titles more than they read the actual posts.)</p>