USC vs. UCLA competitive admissions

Mom2M
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:07:38 +0000

UCLA does not have a duty to be open to the top 10%+ of California students. Until this past admissions cycle, UC spots were only guaranteed to the top 4%. This changed for the incoming class, to top 9% state wide. And those students were only guaranteed admission to either UC Davis or UC Merced.
As far as GPA, keep in mind the UC’s use their own GPA–sophmore and junior year grades, weighting only 8 semesters.
UCLA’s acceptance rate was 20.5% (see the LA Times). The admit rate for California applicants only was 17.7%, of course both UCLA and USC admit students from outside California. (see the Daily Californian)