UC · Freshman admissions by race and ethnicity · California residents · Fall 2017–2025

Who UC Admits, by RaceEvery campus, every fall since 2017, and 914 high schools group against group

The University of California publishes how many California students of each race and ethnicity applied to each campus, how many it admitted and how many enrolled. In Fall 2025 that was 130,896 applicants and 100,570 admits. Below, the same numbers as four charts: admit rates side by side, who applies against who gets in, nine years of change, and what happens to students of different groups who come from the same high school.

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UCLA admitted 7.5% of its Hispanic/Latino California applicants in Fall 2025, and 10.8% of its Asian applicants.That is about one in 13 against one in 9. White applicants were admitted at 9.6% and Black applicants at 10.4%. Across all nine campuses, 83% of Asian applicants got into at least one UC, 76% of Hispanic/Latino, 71% of white and 67% of Black applicants.

100,570

California freshmen admitted to at least one UC campus for Fall 2025, of 130,896 who applied (77%).

38.5%

Hispanic/Latino share of UC's California admits in Fall 2025, up from 33.0% in Fall 2017. At UC San Diego it rose from 24.2% to 33.1%, while the Asian share fell from 44.3% to 39.9%.

19.5%

White share of UC's California freshman applicants in Fall 2025, down from 23.7% in Fall 2017. Fewer apply; the admit share has fallen with it.

1Admit rate by group, every campus

Each row is a campus, most selective at the top. Each bubble is one group: how far right it sits is the share of that group's California applicants the campus admitted, and its size is how many applied. The thin dark tick is the campus's rate for everyone. The scale is logarithmic so the selective campuses, where every rate sits between 5% and 40%, are not crushed into one corner. Press play to run the years.

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2Who applies, against who gets in

One bubble per campus per group. Across is the group's share of the campus's California applicants; up is its share of the students admitted. A bubble on the dashed line was admitted in exact proportion to how many applied. Above the line, the group makes up more of the admitted class than of the applicant pool; below it, less. Size is the number admitted. Pick a campus to bring its bubbles forward.

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3Nine falls at one campus

Admit rate for each group, Fall 2017 to Fall 2025, bubble size again the number who applied. Fall 2021 is marked: it was the first freshman class UC chose without the SAT or ACT.

4Same high school, different groups

Campus-wide rates mix together students from very different high schools. This chart holds the school fixed. Each bubble is one California high school; across is the admit rate for one group of its applicants, up is the rate for another group from the same school, pooled over Fall 2021–2025. Above the dashed line the second group was admitted at the higher rate; below it, the first. A school is shown when it sent at least 15 applicants from each group to that campus over the five falls. Search for your school, or tap a bubble.

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A school-year where UC shows a group's applicants but blanks its admits (UC blanks any count under 3) is counted as 1 admit; the bubble's details say when that happened. These comparisons do not hold grades, courses or intended major fixed, and UC publishes none of those by race at the school level.

What these charts can and cannot tell you

California has barred its public universities from considering race in admissions since Proposition 209 in 1996, and UC does not use it. So a gap between two groups' admit rates is not a finding that race was weighed. It is the sum of everything that differs between the two applicant pools: grades and the courses behind them, the high schools they attended and how UC reads those schools, the majors they chose, the essays, and, since Fall 2021, nothing at all from the SAT or ACT.

What the numbers do show is who ends up admitted, and that has moved. The share of UC's California admits who are Hispanic/Latino rose from 33.0% in Fall 2017 to 38.5% in Fall 2025, the white share of applicants fell from 23.7% to 19.5%, and the selective campuses moved most. Chart 4 is the closest the public data comes to a like-for-like comparison: same school, same campus, same five years.

Data. Campus figures (charts 1–3): UC Office of the President, Information Center, Undergraduate admissions summary, fall freshmen, filtered to California residents, Fall 2017–2025, read October 7, 2026. These are campus totals and nothing is blanked. “Any UC campus” counts each student once, admitted if any campus admitted them. School figures (chart 4): UC Office of the President, Admissions by source school, freshman applicants and admits by race and ethnicity for each California high school, each campus, Fall 2021–2025, pooled across the five falls. UC blanks school-level applicant counts under 5 and admit counts under 3; a blanked applicant count drops that fall for that group, and a blanked admit count beside a shown applicant count is counted as 1 (the true value is 0, 1 or 2). Groups are UC's own: African American (shown here as Black), American Indian, Asian, Hispanic/Latino(a), Pacific Islander, White, and Unknown (shown as “Not reported”). International students are not California residents and are not in these figures. Admit rate is admits divided by applicants for the same group, campus and fall. Merced and Riverside admit most applicants, so their rates are high for every group. A school links to its own page here only when the match is certain: a private school by its College Board code, a public school by name within its county when exactly one school matches; the numbers themselves come only from UC's file. Every source is listed on the methodology page.

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