Applications to UCLA have yet again reached a record high, with the total number of applicants for fall 2013 reaching almost 100,000, according to a report released today by the University of California Office of the President.
This marks an 8.8 percent increase from last year and the highest number of applicants in the university’s history, according to a UCLA news release.
The number of freshman applicants at UCLA rose by 10.8 percent since last year, while the total number of freshman applicants at the UC saw a 10.7 percent increase. Transfer applications also increased, by about 1 percent, after having decreased last year by about 4 percent, according to Daily Bruin archives.
UCLA saw a 31.7 percent increase in freshman international applications since last year. Out-of-state freshman applications increased by 19 percent, with only a 5 percent increase in California resident applicants.
“We have seen a surge in applications at UCLA over the last several years and while there is an increase in applications at institutions nationally, what we are seeing is a tremendous quality increase in students seeking us,” said Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice chancellor for enrollment management. “To that extent I am not surprised (by the nearly 100,000 applications).”
Across the UC system, applications rose by 8.6 percent and also set a record high with nearly 175,000 applicants.
“We were not surprised (by the data), and are frankly gratified that there’s still such a high demand for the University,” said Dianne Klein, a UC spokeswoman. “We had anecdotal evidence that the numbers would be up, and what this was was collating all the information from the campuses to see the larger trends.”
UCLA received the most applicants of the nine campuses, but UC Santa Cruz saw the largest increase with 14.8 percent.
The UCLA news release stated that UCLA remains the “most applied-to” university in the country.
One change in the demographics of the new applicant data includes an increase in the number of Chicano-Latino students from California that applied. Already the largest racial group among California high school graduates, Chicano-Latino students are now the largest racial group among freshman applicants to the UC in California as well.
For a complete breakdown of the UC’s fall 2013 application data, see here.
Compiled by Katherine Hafner and Jillian Beck, Bruin senior staff.
Wow! Good for the school. Hopefully not bad for the average applicant like me 🙁
Will they be increasing admission rates to accommodate the increase? :c
It only gets harder to get in with more applicants