<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Just wondering...how hard is it to get into UCLA for an international?</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore, with top grades, scoring 34 in ACT practice tests, have pretty good EC's. Any comments?</p>
<p>It's difficult to say considering they don't publish separate admissions data on OOS students. They do, however, announce admit rates. They usually just above or below the acceptance (or rejection) rate of in-state students. This doesn't tell you anything about the pool of OOS students. One intuitively believes that students applying as OOSers have slightly more competitive stats under the notion that the UC System focuses predominantly (given its public nature) of California residents. With that understanding, it's assumed that OOSers are seen as being more competitive and as students who have enough academic prowess under a pre-determined (at least it seems the case as it its becoming a concern over the number of OOS students increasing relative to in-state students) ratio. This exaggerates the idea of competitiveness.</p>
<p>OK, that post thoroughly confused me (no offense) :D</p>
<p>Does anyone know the admit rate for OOS/intls?</p>
<p>It was approximately 26% the other year or slightly higher than the normal admit rate. This says nothing about the pool of OOS students however and their overall stats.</p>
<p>What she's saying is that OOS people know that the UC's don't "like" them, and so a lot of people that would've served as admissions "fodder" (people that would've been rejected and knew it) opt out of applying, making the people that do remain really strong candidates, as a result raising the overall admissions rate.</p>
<p>As a sophomore, you really aren't at the point where a chance would work necessarily. You have literally half of your GPA still yet to be determined, and a host of EC's/tests that you could take that may or may not affect your ultimate decision in '10. Overall though, you're looking remarkably good (if top scores translates to most if not all As) for UCLA.</p>
<p>Yes, Peppers captured my exact sentiments.</p>
<p>Top grades are (at the moment) translating to one of the top 3 in my class.</p>
<p>It's nice to know that you think I'm looking remarkably good! Thank you!</p>
<p>Well you're probably not that good at tetris. [/mischievous]</p>