Unfortunately I do not know how they determine whom they accept for the College of L&S other than what they state about Freshman selection on the website:
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Not too much chatter on this thread considering it is the most applied to school in the country! 
s24 is very eager for this one so fingers crossed it works out.
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Everyone is too busy holding their breath! lol
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Too exhausted.
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I have a friend who reads the UCLA scholarship essays and she always receives them the day after admissions are announced. She said she’s been told she’ll be receiving them this Sat, which further supports the thinking that admissions will be released Fri.
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@Gumbymom I assume you would know but what time are UCLA decisions typically released?
I never understand why the UCLA portal has such a weird login system. I’m going to frantically be logging into the UC-wide portal for the ID when decisions come out, whilst one of the portals is likely going to crash.
Around 5 PM PST.
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The applicant ID# is available in the original email your student was sent after the UC app submission so no need to login to the uc portal to get it.
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after no word from Cal Poly SLO we are all just exhausted and UCLA is such a lottery… My daughter’s HS only gets 6 accepts every year so it is such a LONG shot!
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I know this process of waiting and dealing with rejections has been hard. But as everyone keeps saying it all works out in the end so keep hope alive!
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That’s twice as many admits as we typically get, so it could be worse! Good luck to everyone.
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Does UCLA send out emails indicating a change in the applicant’s portal, or do they just need to log in at 5 pst?
how many students on average apply from your school?
Usually the portal updates first followed by an email.
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Somewhere around 40, usually.
At my school, 320 kids apply to ucla, 42 admits, 29 enrolled. 329 applied to ucsb, and 111 were admitted, 28 enrolled. Oddly, 220 students applied to Irvine, and only 32 were accepted (with 6 enrolling). This confirmed my theory that Irvine yield protects (or some form of it), as it’s more likely to accept kids from schools where students are more likely to enroll when accepted. I have also checked the high schools in Irvine, and they have significantly more Irvine admits (more likely to enroll when accepted), with less admits to ucla, ucsb, and ucb compared to my school. I have cross checked this data back a few years and it seems to follow the same trend. This explains why some of my friends who got into ucb, and ucsb early (top 1% if applicants) got straight rejected from Irvine.
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Colleges and universities often give preference to local students. Cal Poly SLO is a good example where they have a higher % acceptance rate at SLO High School than the overall % of acceptances.
For those that are new, the UCs just updated today the acceptance data by source school
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Yes. Exist
ucla admits southern ca students more .
Ucb admits Northern ca students more.
Because orange county students prefer to go uci than ucsd or ucsb though exceptions exist.
Harvard admits East students more than CA .
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