College admittance rates are on the decline among public universities.
The University of California, Los Angeles, reported an admission rate of 8.6% this most recent fall semester, with the University of California, Berkeley, reporting 11.4%. Last year, Berkeley accepted over 2,000 more students than it did this year, and UCLA admitted thousands more as well.
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Less than half of the University of Georgia’s applicants, 42%, were accepted this fall after the university admitted a historically low number in 2021 at 39%. It previously toted accepting over 40% of students without a test score of any kind. The University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin similarly let in less than half of the applicants. Ten years ago, however, all three of the schools accepted more than 60% of applicants.
The University of Virginia, which famously does not have GPA or testing cutoffs, admitted a record-low 19% of applicants for the fall of 2022.
Meanwhile, the Ivy League’s Harvard University also reached a record-low 3.19% acceptance rate this year. Last year, the acceptance rate was 3.4%, which was also a record after its acceptance rate actually increased in 2020 from the year before.
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Nationally, the average acceptance rate among all colleges ranked by the U.S. News and World Report that reported their admissions statistics was 70.1% last year. There were also 25 schools that accepted 100% of students who applied.
