The UC announced that it admitted its largest-ever number of California undergraduate students in the 2024-2025 admissions cycle.
The University admitted nearly 150,000 first-year students from a pool of over 205,000 applicants, resulting in a 73% systemwide admission rate – an increase from last year’s rate of 66%, according to a Monday press release from the UC Office of the President. The admissions rate for first-year California residents sat higher at 77%, with the number of in-state admits increasing over 7% from fall 2024.
UCLA, the most applied-to university in the United States, received 145,058 applications and admitted 13,660 students for its fall 2025 freshman class, resulting in an acceptance rate of about 9.42% – a slight increase from last year. Sixty-three percent of UCLA admits were California residents, while out-of-state and international students comprised 26% and 11% of offers, respectively.