UCLA's Class of 2015 Acceptance Rate?

College Search & Selection
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<p>33%?</p>

<p>College</a> Search - University of California: Los Angeles - UCLA - Admission</p>

<p>Acceptance & Retention
Percent applicants admitted:** 33%**
Percent of students who return for sophomore year: 97%</p>

<p>from the UCLA website:</p>

<p>UCLA</a> Profile</p>

<p>22.7%</p>

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<p>oops</p>

<p>should be UCLA Class of 2014 instead of 2015 in title of thread</p>

<p>sorry</p>

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<p>The college search data is generally a couple years old. It is a great tool for finding schools and getting a general feel for them but I wouldn’t try and say it is up to the minute data. If you see a school you are interested in you will have to do a bit more research. The UCLA numbers off their website are probably right.</p>

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<p>Did anyone receive confirmation of UCLA receiving your application? There has been no communication from the university regarding setting up a portal, accessing their website for updates, or how acceptance/rejection is transmitted. How does one know they even received the application?</p>

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<p>they took my money, that should be good enough !!!</p>

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<p>…, err, onecircuit - I’m a bad speller… the acceptance rate hasn’t been in the 30%'s for well over a decade.</p>

<p>I don’t know when UCLA started to become inundated with apps, maybe UCLABandMom can answer. </p>

<p>Yields have dropped because the school is trying to attract more non-residents. But generally, now:</p>

<p>60K apps for frosh class (55-60K, last five years)</p>

<p>13.8K accepted, 23% (hovered last couple years between 21-24%)</p>

<p>4.8K target enrollment, 34.7% yield (used to be closer to 40%, but higher ranking students along with school seeking more non-residents has lessened yield). We’ll see where CA residents come in wrt numbers, but legitmately s/b ~ 4K if the school seeks > 15% non-residents. Target is eventually ~ 20% nr’s.</p>

<p>Under 33% acceptance senario, 60K apps -> 20K accepted. UCSD has a yield in 20%'s so it will have to accept around 20K of its ~ 60K apps to yield a class of ~ 5K.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t put a lot of trust in Collegeboard.com for things other than running “standardized” tests.</p>

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<p>I don’t think CollegeBoard’s data is legitimate. I’d trust UCLA’s data.</p>

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<p>CollegeBoard is using decade old data? </p>

<p>I knew the statistics on the site were outdated but I never realized it was that outdated. -.-</p>

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<p>… acceptance rate was 33%. In 1999, it dipped to 29%. Ever since, it’s been lowering to now, ~ 22-23%.</p>

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<p>The UCLA Profile did erroneously state the following for 25th and 75th percentiles:</p>

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<p>I’m thinking they have it reversed, although I didn’t realize xfer’s could have > 4.0 GPA on 4-pt scale.</p>

<p>Average xfer is 3.65-3.7 so I don’t know where teh weights would come from being the midpoint is 3.81.</p>

<p>Also, with students approaching 5.0 w gpa on 4-pt scale, the 4.45 is probably capped.</p>

<p>The 3.86 w gpa would probably converge to a uw 3.86 gpa as the 25th percentile would be those from bad hss.</p>

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<p>Is that so hard to find?</p>

<p>UCLA APPLICATIONS FOR FALL OF</p>

<p>YEAR FRESH TSFER TOTAL
2003 44,323 12,786 57,109
2004 43,105 13,809 56,914
2005 42,103 13,098 55,201
2006 47,226 13,065 60,291
2007 50,667 13,382 64,049
2008 55,346 14,982 70,328
2009 55,610 16,496 72,106
2010 57,578 18,735 76,313
2011 61,498 19,737 81,235</p>

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<p>From the same source, a slightly different presentation:</p>

<p>Los Angeles
Total APPL ADMIT ENROL ADM% YLD%
2009 55,694 12,178 4,472 21.9 36.7
2008 55,423 12,659 4,734 22.8 37.4
2007 50,746 11,960 4,563 23.6 38.2
2006 47,317 12,188 4,809 25.8 39.5
2005 42,223 11,361 4,422 26.9 38.9
2004 43,460 9,949 3,723 22.9 37.4
2003 44,981 10,577 4,268 23.5 40.4
2002 43,435 10,453 4,257 24.1 40.7
2001 40,744 10,957 4,246 26.9 38.8
2000 37,803 10,943 4,200 28.9 38.4
1999 35,683 10,298 4,130 28.9 40.1</p>

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<p>… I’m a bit slow… </p>

<p>The 25th & 75th percentiles for incoming students s/b the following:</p>

<p>Freshmen HS GPA (5-point scale)…4.13-4.45
Transfers Student GPA (4-point scale)…3.49-3.86</p>

<p>This works because average gpa of xfer is ~ 3.65-3.70, and average capped gpa of incoming frosh is ~ 4.25-4.30, the approximate midpoints of these two medians. </p>

<p>Again for the latter, the top 25% will come in with 4.6’s and greater up to 5.00. There are a decent number of students who enter UCLA with this 5.00 uncapped gpa, I’ll guess, maybe 10-15%. But after awhile, the UC stops counting 5.00’s registered in class. Because of this cap, the top UC w gpa is ~ 4.45-4.50, so the 100th percentile gpa student won’t have anything higher than this, even if his/her high school calculated his/her grades at 5.00. And those who don’t accumulate as much AP won’t have caps placed on them. And we know the 5-point scale is erroneously named because not all courses are capped at 5 points.</p>

<p>If I were a reader – independently minded of course – I would look more intently at uw gpa, with the average for the school being ~ 3.81. The readers do look at all information, even grades of individual classes, so one mediocre grade can cause someone to be rejected. The 25th & 75th percentiles would probably be around 3.73-3.90 or thereabouts.</p>

<p>So this means approximately the following:</p>

<p>25 percentile: 3.73/4.13 uw/w gpa
75 percentile: 3.90/4.80 uw/w gpa </p>

<p>The SAT’s lag at UCLA, but that’s because (besides being public and understanding the importance of wealth’s bearing on the test) anyone lower than 3.7uw (and say 4.3 w) gpa has a poor chance of being accepted even if he/she has 2200+ SAT1. And since the school has gone to the holistics review of students, there will still be some who are accepted with lower grades and SAT’s even competing for a spot within the same department at UCLA, because the former will have had a tougher family life to overcome – which means essays have large weights on admissions.</p>

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<p>… but you know how you recite things from memory, but think better of things and actually look to see if your recitations are correct?</p>

<p>This is what I did when I stated later:</p>

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<p>Okay, so I’m off a % point or so…</p>

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<p>Okay, so I’m off a year or so…</p>

<p>As far as asking Bandmom when UCLA started being inundated, I thought there was a year, when apps jumped dramatically, rather than seeing increases from year to year.</p>

<p>But thanks for the info, nonetheless. ; )</p>

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<p>“25 percentile: 3.73/4.13 uw/w gpa
75 percentile: 3.90/4.80 uw/w gpa”</p>

<p>I have absolutely no idea where those weighted gpas come from. Either your formula is completely wrong or the school graduating those students inflates grades to a ridiculous level. I have taken 28 semesters of honors or ap courses. My unweighted GPA is currently a 3.95, but my weighted is only a 4.26 because it isn’t possible to take all 7 of my classes each semester as honors/AP. That would be pure insanity. A 4.80 is ridiculous. The uc gpa, calculated on only sophomore and junior year, caps at 8 semesters of honors and ap courses. i did not get any B’s during this period, and my UC GPA is a 4.4. Accordingly, I believe this is the around the highest possible unless a student takes fewer than 6-7 courses each semester.</p>

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<p>And that will mean what when UCLA has to cut 500 classes and you can’t get into ones you need? This admissions mania is just looking at the wrong numbers. Worry about who will be there to teach you and if the library can buy books. Sheeesh</p>

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<p>rebecca2011:</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply.</p>

<p>I was going to correct some things, some inconsistencies with my post #13, in case someone were to reference this post in the future, hopefully not, lol, so thanks for bubbling up this post instead of me having to search for it:</p>

<p>1.) I initially stated:</p>

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<p>I’m thinking the 75th-percentile gpa s/b corrected in my the prior post to the following:</p>

<p>75 percentile: 3.90/4.60 uw/w gpa, to compensate for the hss that offer less AP and as you noted, don’t “inflate” their students’ gpas.</p>

<p>2.) For the top 25% of the incoming class, the weighted gpa will indeed approach 5.0, and in some cases equal this. According to my prior post:</p>

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<p>This was way overstated. A “perfect storm” of circumstances are needed for someone to graduate with a 5.0, for which I didn’t allow. For someone to have a 5.0: the student must be precocious, an academic “maniac”…school must calculate grades at the higher levels, as you stated, though not necessarily “inflated”…these would be final grades, not just grades 10 & 11. So I will adjust the 5.0 students to ~ 5-10% of UCLA”s incoming class, probably closer to 5%. (Most top-tier students drive through the tape, with their competitive nature driving them to graduate at the top of their class, ie, no senioritis.)</p>

<p>I agree with you regarding the 4.4 being the caps for 10th and 11th grades. I would say it’d have to be higher, 4.45-4.50, unless UCLA were to make the adjustment later on because it reports 4.45 at the 75th percentile, unless they were to “release” the caps, which would seemingly be negligible for these two grades. I don’t think they do; I don’t think they can because they report the admitted students’ stats shortly after emailing acceptances. I don’t see any c and u making these adjustments after final senior grades are reported in students’ senior years, although they would have this info, unlike a student blocking the release of his/her lower scoring SAT’s. (But UCLA and Cal certainly do monitor senior grades very closely.)</p>

<p>3.) Wrt to your post, many high schools report well above 4.5 gpas for their graduating seniors. Here are some:</p>

<p>a.) [PV</a> Peninsula HS](<a href=“http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf]PV”>http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance2010.pdf), with UCLA applicants starting, page 79. I see several, 4.6’s, 4.7’s and a few 4.8’s among UCLA’s 22 matriculants.</p>

<p>b.) Another high school is [PV HS](<a href=“http://www.pvhigh.com/CCC/pdf/CCC_Student_Profile_2010.pdf”>http://www.pvhigh.com/CCC/pdf/CCC_Student_Profile_2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;), with the average weighted gpa of UCLA’s 23 matriculants, 4.62. How high do the w gpas go? Probably 4.8 range, generally.</p>

<p>c.) Another hs shows the following for regularly admitted students to UCLA, rank and w-gpa, with this hss’ grad class being ~ 400:</p>

<p>2 4.87
15 4.62
17 4.61
19 4.57
22 4.54
24 4.50
35 4.42
39 4.36</p>

<p>The top grad went to MIT with a 4.91 w gpa.</p>

<p>There are some hss, which one would think would have w-gpas approaching 5.0, but don’t: Gunn and Palo Alto HSS. Both school’s w-gpas top out at ~ 4.5, but both have extremely elevated u-gpas: with the 90th percentile student graduating with > 3.90 gpas. This is almost a private-school type grade situation: lower w-gpas, but a lot higher uw’s.</p>

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<p>I agree, nice point.</p>

<p>However, I was just trying to correct the mistakes of whoever reported these numbers.</p>

<p>And I think that this is the purpose, temporarily, of admitting more non-residents.</p>

<p>Agree, the “arguing” over admissions standards really don’t have a lot of significance.</p>

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<p>recently talked to a UCLA freshman that couldn’t get into one or two of his required courses for his major this coming quarter. Hate to see this stuff.</p>

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<p>What class?</p>

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<p>drax, one of the required classes for the Neuroscience or Biology degree</p>