UCLA admissions - what do you think is going on here?

ucbalumnus
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:50:00 +0000

Emsmom1:

UCLA, UCB and UCSD have holistic admissions (more like private schools, although they can’t take race into account). The other UCs are comprehensive and put more emphasis on objective measures (GPA, test scores).

The other UCs appear to use a similar process, but they have more differentiation between applicants by stats, rather than having a lot of stats compression at the top end.

The application essays (choose four of eight topics) are important, and comparison of an individual applicant’s essays to that of the applicant pool is generally not possible for outsiders. That is likely to be the mystery variable.