University of California - Los Angeles
CA · Public · West · National university · Top 25 tier · 26,983 undergraduates (large)
Admission rates
Latest admit rates
† This school has no early round, so the regular rate equals the overall admit rate.
Trends, Fall 2020–Fall 2025
Admission rates
Early plans
Fall 2027 applicants
Testing
Testing policy
Superscoring
What this means:
- SAT
- N/A (test-free; scores not considered)
- ACT
- N/A (test-free; scores not considered)
Source ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026
UC is test-free; scores may only be used for minimum eligibility or course placement.
How to send scores
Test-free: scores not considered
UC is test-free for admission; scores are not used in admission decisions.
School’s words: “If a student self-reports a test score, they should provide the official score report when they receive an offer of admission from UC.”
Source ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026
Scores
Test-free: scores not used. University of California - Los Angeles does not use SAT or ACT scores in admission, so its Common Data Set reports no score ranges.
Trends, Fall 2020–Fall 2025
Share of enrolled students submitting scores
SAT composite, middle 50%
ACT composite, middle 50%
Year-by-year data, Fall 2020–Fall 2025
| CDS year | Admitted | Admit rate | ED rate | Est. % submitting | % SAT | % ACT | SAT mid-50 | ACT mid-50 | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2020-21 | 15,352 | 14.3% | Not reported | 100% | 79.7% | 39.6% | 1290-1510 | 29-34 | |||
| 2021-22 | 14,663 | 10.8% | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Test-free: scores not used | Not reported | |||
| 2022-23 | 12,844 | 8.6% | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |||
| 2023-24 | 12,737 | 8.7% | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |||
| 2024-25 | 13,114 | 9% | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |||
| 2025-26 | 13,659 | 9.4% | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |||
Waitlist admit rate
Share of students who stayed on the waitlist and were later admitted, by entering class.
- 2025: 11%
- 2023: 12%
- 2022: 3%
Test policy in each Common Data Set
History only. The current policy is under Testing above.
- Fall 2027 Not reported2025-26 CDS
- Fall 2026 Not reported2024-25 CDS
- Fall 2025 Not reported2023-24 CDS
- Fall 2024 Not reported2022-23 CDSThis form’s own wording says Fall 2023; every CDS here is read as covering the fall two years after its first year.
- Fall 2023 Test-free2021-22 CDS
- Fall 2022 Test-free2020-21 CDS
- Fall 2021 CDS not available2019-20 CDS