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But at UCLA, the nation's most applied-to university, the admit rate remained in single-digits, 9.5%. In total, UC offered admission to 166,706 first-year and transfer students from California and ...
Admission rates vary according to the residency of applicants. For Fall 2019, California residents had an admission rate of 12.0%, while out-of-state U.S. residents had an admission rate of 16.4% and internationals had an admission rate of 8.4%. [146] UCLA's overall freshman admit rate for the Fall 2019 term was 12.3%. [147]
For Fall 2019, UCLA Engineering received 25,804 freshman applications and admitted 2,505 for an admission rate of 9.7%. [15] For Fall 2015 admitted students had a median weighted grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 and a median SAT score of 2190. [16] The breakdown of SAT scores by subject is as follows: [16]
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
In 2017, a federal endowment tax was enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the form of an excise tax of 1.4% on institutions that have at least 500 tuition-paying students and net assets of at least $500,000 per student. The $500,000 is not adjusted for inflation, so the threshold is effectively lowered over time.
Johns Hopkins University Overall 6 (tie) [119] U.S News: Johns Hopkins University Pre-med 2 [125] [126] Prepscholar, Medicalaid (2021) Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: Neuroscience / Neurobiology 4 (tie) [127] U.S News: Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: Molecular Biology 3 (tie) [128] U.S News: Whiting School of Engineering ...
In 1961, Johns Hopkins, along with the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Rochester, established the first graduate programs in biomedical engineering. [3] Established in the School of Medicine, the program at Johns Hopkins is the oldest continually-funded PhD program in the nation. [4] [5]
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...