You’ve come to the right place if you’re curious about the acceptance rate of the University of California, Los Angeles. We at Ivy Coach have aggregated the total number of applicants, the total number of offers of admission, and the overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2028 through the Class of 2004. The data currently available for the Class of 2029 is quite sparse, though this data will be updated when more information becomes publicly available. So what’s UCLA’s acceptance rate, and how has it changed over time?

UCLA Acceptance Rate (Classes of 2028 — 2004)

Below you’ll find the overall admission rate, total applications, and total offers of admission for each of the last 20+ years at UCLA. These figures are drawn from UCLA’s reporting to The Common Data Set.

UCLA Class Year	Total Applications	Total Offers of Admission	Overall Acceptance Rate
Class of 2029	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published
Class of 2028	146,250	13,102	8.96%
Class of 2027	145,910	12,737	8.73%
Class of 2026	149,815	12,844	8.57%
Class of 2025	139,490	15,028	10.77%
Class of 2024	108,877	15,602	14.33%
Class of 2023	108,831	13,432	12.34%
Class of 2022	111,011	15,556	14.01%
Class of 2021	100,252	16,090	16.05%
Class of 2020	97,121	17,474	17.99%
Class of 2019	92,728	16,016	17.27%
Class of 2018	86,548	16,059	18.56%
Class of 2017	80,522	16,448	20.43%
Class of 2016	72,697	15,982	21.98%
Class of 2015	61,528	15,688	25.50%
Class of 2014	57,670	13,088	22.69%
Class of 2013	55,708	12,179	21.86%
Class of 2012	55,437	12,660	22.84%
Class of 2011	50,755	11,963	23.57%
Class of 2010	47,317	12,189	25.76%
Class of 2009	42,227	11,361	26.90%
Class of 2008	43,199	9,949	23.03%
Class of 2007	44,994	10,581	23.52%
Class of 2006	43,443	10,455	24.07%
Class of 2005	40,739	10,953	26.89%
Class of 2004	37,794	10,945	28.96%

University of California, Los Angeles Acceptance Rate and Application Trends

Notice a trend in UCLA’s admissions figures? Except for four times over the last 24 years, UCLA’s first-year applications have increased year-over-year — often dramatically.

One of those four occasions was for the Class of 2027, when applications fell from an all-time high of 149,815 for the Class of 2026 to 145,910 for the Class of 2027.

Additionally, UCLA’s overall admission rate has plummeted over the last quarter of a century — from 28.96% for the Class of 2004 to 8.57% for the Class of 2026 (it stood at 8.73% for the Class of 2027 and 8.96% for the Class of 2028). Since the Class of 2004, the admission rate has dropped year-over-year all but seven times (with a couple of bumps in the road, like for the Classes of 2009 and 2015 when the acceptance rate jumped up fairly significantly). 

This recent year marks a somewhat unusual instance where the acceptance rate has shown a slight increase from the previous year. Could this be a sign that the recent surge of interest in UCLA is starting to level off? It’s worth noting that UCLA routinely sets records for attracting the largest applicant pools in higher education. The figure of 146,250 applicants is a number most schools, highly selective or not, could only dream of. The future will reveal whether interest in this prestigious public research university has peaked or if more hopeful students will vie for admission in the coming cycles.

Profile of the UCLA Class of 2029

UCLA leadership has opted to keep any and all information on the incoming Class of 2029 close to the vest this year, so there’s not much we can dissect relating to their demographic breakdown or relative selectivity compared with other years. But rest assured that this data is bound to become available via The Common Data Set later this year.

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