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For the fall 2025 quarter, first-year and transfer Asian students made up about 30-45% of UCLA applications, admittances and enrollments from schools in the United States – greater than any other racial or ethnic group for most school types. 
UCLA has seen a rise in overall applicants, with the previous gap between enrolled men and women starting to steadily close as of 2025 admissions as application counts for women plateau and for men rise.

This post was updated Aug. 27 at 1:47 p.m.
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Thirty-seven percent of UCLA students face food insecurity.
The Community Programs Office hosts a basic needs collective that provides mobile food carts, weekly grocery bundles and seasonal food boxes and uses a strictly anonymous system to reduce the stigma around accessing food assistance.

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Business clubs at UCLA have a challenging recruitment process, with 55% of business clubs requiring applicants to submit a written application, participate in a coffee chat and go through a final round interview.

This post was updated Jan. 15 at 10:19 p.m.
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In 2024, roughly 15,000 Metro Bike Share trips were taken by UCLA students and staff.

UCLA by the numbers
For the cohort of fall 2024, UCLA received 173,651 applications, comprising 146,276 first-year applications and 27,177 transfer applications – the most of any university in the nation.