Health & Fitness
Crazy College Admissions Data
Applying for college? Check out these entertaining stats for big name schools.
- If you think it could not get worse, imagine getting an admissions letter taken away! This is what happened at UCLA: “…officials are apologizing after the university mistakenly told nearly 900 high school seniors they were going to be Bruins next year. The students are actually still on the waiting list — despite receiving congratulations letters from the highly selective university, The Associated Press reported.” Extra Tylenol, anyone??
- Harvard was once again the hardest school to get accepted into with a 5.9% acceptance rate. On the top of the public university front, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dropped from an acceptance rate of 31.4 % to 25% this year. This largely impacted out of state applicants, as UNC kept this pool to just 14%. The University of Virginia, a rival of UNC’s, kept their out of state pool to 22%, but had to sort through 19,000 out of state applicants to get to their 4,000 offers. Now, they need half of these students to turn them down!
- On the California front, UC Berkeley received 61,000 applications, a 16.5% increase from last year! That CA sun must be shining!! At the University of California at San Diego, 75,987 students applied for a jump in applications of 13%. Overall, the CA system received 160,000 applications.