why UCLA keeps dropping in USNews rankings

Corbett
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:11:44 +0000

Actually, I’m pretty sure the freshman class is over 4,000 people this year. I don’t know where that number’s from, but it doesn’t make any sense–we have over 16k undergrads, 16k/4=4k.

It makes sense if you add in the transfer students. A total of 4,239 new undergraduates enrolled at USC in 2009, which is consistent with 16K/4. However, only 2,869 of the new students were incoming freshmen. The other 1,370 new students entered as transfers. UCLA and Berkeley also admit large numbers of transfer students.

The US News rankings only consider the stats of the incoming freshman; they don’t look at incoming transfers.