Admission Rate Rumor?

UWfromCA
Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:58:29 +0000

I’m glad I’m not applying to colleges these days. Take a look at this 2006 article from USA Today, reporting admissions data from 2004: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-11-02-collegerates_x.htm

For the college class of 2008, UCD’s admission rate was 57%, UCSB’s was 53%, UCSD’s was 37% and UCLA/UCB were around 24%. Heck, UW’s was almost 71%, but last year it was 55%, as applications increased from 15,773 in 2004 to 31,611 in 2014.

Same goes for quite a few “elite” private universities: NYU was at 35%, Notre Dame 30% and USC 27%, rates that today some would consider to be “not that competitive.”

We’re all rooting for you, Class of 2019!