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Since
most of the application information other than GPAs and test scores
is self-reported, “the faculty wanted to send a strong message
that the process is fair and that we hold students accountable for
the information they report,” says UC Admissions Director
Wilbur. If a falsification is uncovered, that student is barred
from admission to any UC campus. In the first year, Wilbur said,
“We found our students were very honest in reporting their
information.”
By
February the applications have been thoroughly reviewed and ranked.
Then the difficult task of deciding which students to admit and
which to turn away begins. Applications that land on the borderline
receive a complete re-read — “A single point could make
a difference,” says Stolzenbach. This year, some 4,000 borderline
dossiers were re-read.
The
final selection for the College of Letters and Science, which represents
more than 80 percent of the applicant pool, is the responsibility
of CUARS, acting on recommendations from the director of admissions
that are based on several factors, including the anticipated yield
— the number of students expected to accept the offer of admission
— and the undergraduate enrollment targets established by
the Chancellor’s Enrollment Advisory Committee. Faculty in
the schools of Arts and Architecture, Theater, Film and Television
and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
— using additional criteria such as auditions and portfolios
— make separate admissions decisions for applicants to those
undergraduate programs. Notification letters are mailed in mid-March;
admitted students have until May 1 to submit a Statement of Intent
to Register.
FOR
THE FALL 2003 freshman class, UCLA whittled its nearly
45,000 applications down to about 10,600 admitted students. Forty-four
hundred are anticipated to enroll. The profile of those admitted
freshmen is impressive:
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