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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%. [140] UCLA's overall freshman admit rate for the Fall 2019 term was 12.3%. [141]
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) traces back to the 19th century when the institution operated as a teachers' college.It grew in size and scope for nearly four decades on two Los Angeles campuses before California governor William D. Stephens signed a bill into law in 1919 to establish the Southern Branch of the University of California. [1]
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]
The systemwide admission rate for California first-year students climbed to 70% from 68% last year. But at UCLA, the nation's most applied-to university, the admit rate remained in single-digits ...
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. [232] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
Galloway was rejected after his first application to the University of California, Los Angeles despite a 76% acceptance rate at the time. On his second application, the UCLA admissions director accepted Galloway, despite poor grades, because Galloway was a "native son of California" and deserved a shot. [10]
His indictment charged Salcedo with taking $200,000 in bribes to help two students, one in 2016 and one in 2018, get admitted to UCLA using falsified soccer credential admission information. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] As a result, he was placed on leave by UCLA from his coaching position at the school.
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