Is UCLA more interested in accepting in state students than out of state?
As far as I know ALL state funded colleges are more interested in accepting in-state students.
Like @Erin’s Dad stated above, the UC’s are state funded colleges, so the majority of accepted students will be in-state. UCLA accepted 4184 OOS applicants last year vs. 9370 in-state. OOS applicants are desired by the UC system, since they pay full fees.
http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm
Why do you want to know? They take both. Since it is a state college the institutional priority is to educate instate student but they have plenty of room for OOS students, more than the residents here would like. I do not think instate and out of state students compete against each other but rather oos competes with other oos for the number of slots available.
The UC system is facing budget difficulties so they are setting aside more seats for OOS students that pay more. They know how many they plan to take each year. I have no idea how you would map that to “more interested”.
There are lower admissions criteria for in-state students, lower set tuition, and many scholarships are restricted to CA residents. There are special outreach programs, such as “local context” consideration, which only apply to CA residents. It is, therefore, “easier” for CA residents to get in, in some respects. There has been some controversy over the fact that the elite campuses have higher acceptance rates for out-of-state applicants, but those non-residents have higher stats than in-state students. It’s just that so many more CA residents apply.