UCLA is now the most selective school in the UC system

Corbett
Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:14:15 +0000

The real story here is how hard it has become to get accepted at UC schools; there’s so much demand now.

Go back to the original post in this thread and look at the numbers:

Los Angeles: 102,181 freshman applications
Berkeley: 85,016 freshman applications
Santa Barbara: 81,790 freshman applications
San Diego: 88,456 freshman applications
Irvine: 85,060 freshman applications

Many Californians don’t realize how amazingly high these numbers are by national standards.

Think about it like this – outside of California, what schools get the most freshman applications? I believe the answers are:

NYU: 67,232 freshman applications (less than Davis)
Boston U: 60,817 freshman applications
Michigan: 58,590 freshman applications (slightly higher than Santa Cruz)

No other private or state universities in the US – not the Ivy League, not the Big Ten, not the CSUs – are dealing with the level of applicant volume that the top UC campuses get.

I read that up until the 60’s, you would be automatically accepted to Berkeley+(The other Campuses) if you had the requirements done,

Even today, you are still automatically accepted to the UC system if you meet the basic requirements in the local or statewide contexts. The difference is that the automatic guarantee only applies to one campus, Merced, which is relatively unpopular.