Diamond Bar Seniors Graduate To University Of California Schools

DIAMOND BAR, CA — Though it is mid-summer, 2017, San Gabriel Valley's recently graduated seniors are lining up to see where they will attend college next year. Recently, University of California Los Angeles, University of California Irvine and other area universities have announced their admissions schedules for the 2017/18 school year.

Admissions were down slightly at both University of California Irvine and University of California Los Angeles campuses according to reports from those institutions.

Overall, admission was offered to 106,011 students across the University of California school system. The UC organization announced that it is on track to meet its three-year goal of enrolling 10,000 additional California students by the next academic year.

The incoming class for the fall is expected to boost the number by another 2,500 in-state students to reach the target.

"We welcome this accomplished, talented group of applicants to the university," UC President Janet Napolitano said. "All of us -- in California and throughout the nation and world -- will be enriched by their talent, curiosity and drive to learn and succeed. The University of California educates the best and the brightest true to our mission of education, research and public service."

UC Irvine offered freshman admission to 31,103 students, down 1.7 percent from last year. The vast majority of the them -- 21,056 -- are in- state students, with 2,849 out-of-state and 7,198 international.

At UCLA, freshman admission was offered to 16,494 high school seniors for the fall, a roughly 6 percent drop from last year, University of California officials announced Thursday.

According to figures released by the university, UCLA offered admission to 9,292 in-state students, 4,871 out-of-state students and 2,331 international students.
UCLA received 102,181 freshman applications, along with 21,811 transfer applications.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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