<p>UCSD has undergone a lot of expansion in facilities in the last few years including dorms as well as classroom and office space. This should have some affect on the numbers of students attending. I know UCLA has added a bunch of new dorms but it’s also taking some offline for refurbishment and part of the purpose is to allow students to stay on campus longer. I don’t know if UCLA’s or UCB’s classroom facilities have expanded as much as UCSDs. Ditto that some other schools are expanding and thus admission percentages s/b higher. The rates are also affected by acceptances versus admission offers.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that one can’t simply look at these basic numbers and draw conclusions as to the selectivity of the school based on admit rates (if that was the goal of this thread). More telling would be average SAT/GPA scores of the students offerred admission.</p>