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<p>You both are missing the point. UCLA doesn’t admit oos students based on ability to pay, and thereby lower admission standards for these students at all or at least materially. The admissions readers don’t look at a student’s app and say, “This applicant is from Greenwich, CT,” and then proceed to place him/her in the auto-admit file despite said student having low grades and low scores because of his/her parents’ ability to pay. </p>
<p>Admissions would, though, admit students on a macro level with regard to the oos group, to target enrollment of these students based on past yields, which are typically significantly lower based on the full tuition price tag. Unfortunately these yields are hard to predict, which has led to UCLA to overenrolling these specifically targeted students or Int’ls often in recent times. </p>
<p>The admit rate for instate students was 18% and for oos students the rate was 34% in 2013, but the qualifying floor for admittance among the latter is higher, which makes up some of the difference. </p>
<p>The low rate of acceptance for instate students was mainly due to the high no. of students who apply who attend bad high schools. But UCLA would rather that they do apply despite some of them having woefully low stats, so the U can cherry-pick some under the holistic approach of admittance, with whom the administration feels it can work, to bring up them up to speed.</p>
<p>Of course oos students who choose to enroll are expected to pay the full bill; however, the administration doesn’t involve itself in determining how these students do so. I would rather hope that it would involve itself in such to prevent them from taking on a high debt load. As such, hopefully the word can continue to spread to prevent students from making foolhardy decisions based exclusively on feelings instead of money-wise ones. </p>