Getting Into UC-San Diego is the dream of a lot of students not just in the United States, but all over the world. Berkeley and UCLA used to be the two clear-cut crown jewels of the University of California system. While this seems to be the case in 2021.
A lot of other branch campuses have become highly selective universities in their own right, with an ever-increasing degree of admissions difficulty. US-San Diego happens to be the major example as it is now a place where 100% of admitted students hail from around top 10% of their high school class and the average GPA is over 4.0.
UC-San Diego Acceptance Rate – Class of 2024
UCSD has received 118,360 applications for the class of 2025, but they are yet to release the official acceptance rates for this cycle. As of the previous year, they received around 100,073 applications and they only accepted around 38,325 individuals that happen to calculates to a 38% acceptance rate. This acceptance rate was a less generous 32% for the class of 2023.
UC-San Diego Admissions
The University of California system happens to have adopted a test-blind policy that started with those that are looking forward to applying in the fall 2021 cycle and extending through at least 2025. For students of 2024, when scores were still accepted, the mid-50% ranges were 1280-1460 on the SAT and 26-33 on the ACT. All the students that enrolled in the 202 0-21 freshman class finished in the top decile of their high school class. The average GPA was around 4.09 and 77% of this cohort has a GPA that is Above 4.0.
Admissions Trends and Notes
- 91% of the 3,347 current transfer was majorly from the California community colleges
- Around 57% of all entering freshmen took more than 10 honors courses in the 10th and 11th grades
- The average SAT score for the 2024 class was 1363; the school is now test-blind.
- Only around 2.7% of students that are entering possessed lower than a 3.6 GPA in high school.
- The rate of yield was reduced from 19% to 17% from around 2019-20 and 2020-21.
Who Gets into UC-San Diego?
Now, let us look at the demographic of UC-San Diego Undergraduates: a lot of the students in UC-San Diego hailed from the Golden State and paid in-state tuition. The total geographic breakdown is stated below as follows.
- Percent from other U.S. States (non-residents) – 7%
- Percent from other countries (non-resident, international) = 17%
- Percent from San Francisco/Bay Area: 13%
- Percent from San Diego County: 22%
- Percent from Los Angeles/Orange Counties: 35%
- Percent from Other California Counties: 6%
When it comes to ethnic identity, the breakdown of the whole Triton undergraduate students’ body, the breakdown is stated as follows:
- Asian American: 37.1%
- Hispanic: 20.8%
- African American: 3%
- International: 17%
- Caucasian: 19%
- African American: 3%
The breakdown that has to do with gender reveals an almost perfectly even split of male and female students.
- Male: 50%
- Female: 50%
The field of study among students that are currently undergraduates is stated as follows:
- Biology: 17%
- Social Sciences: 37%
- Physical Sciences: 12%
- Engineering: 20%
- Arts & Humanities: 5%
UC-San Diego’s Yield Rate
UC-San Diego’s Yield rate. The percentage of students that are accepted and elected to enroll, divided by the number of students that get admitted was 17%. This is a lot lower than a lot of other elite public institutions, UT-Austin has a 46% yield, UNC-Chapel Hill sport a similar 45%, and UGA also comes in at around 45%.
