My friend told me that in her rejection letter, the acceptance rate is 6 or 7%, since they put something like there is space for ~5000/90000 students (I didn’t care to do the math on that.). This seems rather odd, and I would say that this is extremely unlikely, but with the number of applications, I feel that this mystery may have some truth to it?
Maybe she was referring to the total number of expected people to enroll altogether. Idk. Anyone have an opinion?
Not sure about that. The number of the people who applied was like 112,000. I think it is better to wait until they release the stats.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-receives-record-number-of-applications-for-2015
The acceptance rate is not 6%, because, as you suggested, 5,000 is the number expected to ENROLL, not the total number who were accepted. They accepted more, but they have space for about 5,000 students. We haven’t been told the exact number that have been accepted yet but, based on past years, it’s probably around 17-18%
The letter said UCLA had over 92,000 applicants and only spots for 5,700 freshman. That is why so many qualified candidates were not accepted. I know they accept more than 5,700 people, but the 6% is the number of applicants that will end up attending. The 112,000 was the total number of freshman applicants to the UC system this year - a record high!!
Alright, so UCLA accepts triple the number of people they can actually hold? That’s a huge margin. Didn’t realize UCLA’s yield would be so low at 33%.
@IAmTheGOAT Yep, Yield is 35%, you have all the people that use UCLA as a backup for Stanford, MIT, ivies or UC Berkely. Some people even chose UC SD over UCLA. Then you have the people that applied to schools with similar acceptance rates and get accepted at several different schools, so statistically a high number will end up attending another one. And then you have all the people that can’t afford UCLA even they’d want to attend. So, yeah, you quickly drop to 35 % I suppose 
I don’t know what the yield for UCLA has been in recent years, but if 35% is the yield, it would be a respectable yield for a such a large school. Fanastic institution for higher education. Whoever got admitted to this school should consider himself/herself very fortunate.
The yield is much higher for in state than out of state and international. http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm
For 2014 the yields were 44% for in state, 22% for out of state, and 28% for international. California residents were about 64% of the 2014 incoming class.
I’m loling because this thread appears literally every year hahaah
About OOS yield, I think lots of OOS students apply without being sufficiently aware of how selective it is and how affordable it is from OOS. We are in AZ. Looking at Naviance for our high school, it shows that last year 41 seniors applied, 7 were admitted and 1 enrolled. That is typical for our high school’s track record with UCLA. I know that a lot of D’s peers were clueless about the fact that they couldn’t get FA for the OOS tuition supplement, and also had misconceptions about their ability to qualify for in state tuition down the road. Of those who got admitted, probably a lot of them got into other selective schools that gave them better aid.