College admissions, campus by campus
Pick a UC or Cal State campus to see which California high schools send it the most students and which have the highest admit rates, or an Ivy League or top national university for its admit rate and test score ranges.
UC and CSU campuses
Admissions for every California high school, fall 2025.
University of California
- UC Berkeley13% of CA applicants · 1,493 high schools applied
- UC Davis37% of CA applicants · 1,487 high schools applied
- UC Irvine22% of CA applicants · 1,474 high schools applied
- UC Los Angeles10% of CA applicants · 1,513 high schools applied
- UC Merced96% of CA applicants · 1,345 high schools applied
- UC Riverside87% of CA applicants · 1,384 high schools applied
- UC San Diego25% of CA applicants · 1,498 high schools applied
- UC Santa Barbara32% of CA applicants · 1,439 high schools applied
- UC Santa Cruz71% of CA applicants · 1,397 high schools applied
California State University
- Cal Maritime99% overall (undefined) · 12 high schools applied
- Cal Poly Humboldt99% overall (undefined) · 101 high schools applied
- Cal Poly Pomona74% overall (undefined) · 497 high schools applied
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo30% overall (undefined) · 653 high schools applied
- Cal State Bakersfield88% overall (undefined) · 43 high schools applied
- Cal State Channel Islands93% overall (undefined) · 69 high schools applied
- Cal State Dominguez Hills91% overall (undefined) · 206 high schools applied
- Cal State East Bay97% overall (undefined) · 81 high schools applied
- Cal State Fullerton87% overall (undefined) · 639 high schools applied
- Cal State Long Beach47% overall (undefined) · 585 high schools applied
- Cal State Los Angeles92% overall (undefined) · 324 high schools applied
- Cal State Monterey Bay95% overall (undefined) · 120 high schools applied
- Cal State Northridge93% overall (undefined) · 450 high schools applied
- Cal State San Bernardino98% overall (undefined) · 143 high schools applied
- Cal State San Marcos96% overall (undefined) · 238 high schools applied
- Chico State94% overall (undefined) · 349 high schools applied
- Fresno State96% overall (undefined) · 205 high schools applied
- Sacramento State94% overall (undefined) · 377 high schools applied
- San Diego State34% overall (undefined) · 547 high schools applied
- San Francisco State96% overall (undefined) · 294 high schools applied
- San Jose State80% overall (undefined) · 414 high schools applied
- Sonoma State95% overall (undefined) · 90 high schools applied
- Stanislaus State97% overall (undefined) · 80 high schools applied
Ivy League and top universities
Applicants, admit rates, and test score ranges from federal (IPEDS) data. These colleges do not publish admissions by high school, so their figures cover all applicants.
Private universities
- Boston College16% admitted · 36,069 applicants, fall 2023
- Boston University11% admitted · 80,495 applicants, fall 2023
- Caltech3.1% admitted · 13,107 applicants, fall 2023
- Carnegie Mellon11% admitted · 33,707 applicants, fall 2023
- Case Western29% admitted · 39,033 applicants, fall 2023
- Duke6.8% admitted · 46,365 applicants, fall 2023
- Emory11% admitted · 31,929 applicants, fall 2023
- Georgetown13% admitted · 25,485 applicants, fall 2023
- Johns Hopkins7.6% admitted · 38,926 applicants, fall 2023
- Lehigh29% admitted · 18,415 applicants, fall 2023
- MIT4.7% admitted · 26,904 applicants, fall 2023
- NYU9.4% admitted · 113,578 applicants, fall 2023
- Northeastern5.7% admitted · 96,631 applicants, fall 2023
- Northwestern7.2% admitted · 51,769 applicants, fall 2023
- Notre Dame12% admitted · 28,353 applicants, fall 2023
- Rice7.9% admitted · 31,059 applicants, fall 2023
- Rochester36% admitted · 21,680 applicants, fall 2023
- Stanford3.9% admitted · 53,733 applicants, fall 2023
- Tufts10% admitted · 34,003 applicants, fall 2023
- UChicago4.8% admitted · 38,631 applicants, fall 2023
- USC10% admitted · 80,808 applicants, fall 2023
- Vanderbilt6.3% admitted · 45,313 applicants, fall 2023
- Villanova25% admitted · 23,127 applicants, fall 2023
- Wake Forest22% admitted · 17,479 applicants, fall 2023
- WashU12% admitted · 32,240 applicants, fall 2023
Ivy League
- Brown5.2% admitted · 51,316 applicants, fall 2023
- Columbia4.2% admitted · 57,613 applicants, fall 2023
- Cornell8.2% admitted · 65,635 applicants, fall 2023
- Dartmouth6.2% admitted · 28,841 applicants, fall 2023
- Harvard3.5% admitted · 56,937 applicants, fall 2023
- Penn5.9% admitted · 59,465 applicants, fall 2023
- Princeton4.5% admitted · 39,644 applicants, fall 2023
- Yale4.5% admitted · 51,803 applicants, fall 2023
Public universities
- Florida24% admitted · 65,375 applicants, fall 2023
- Georgia Tech16% admitted · 52,377 applicants, fall 2023
- Illinois44% admitted · 67,398 applicants, fall 2023
- Maryland45% admitted · 59,377 applicants, fall 2023
- Michigan18% admitted · 87,632 applicants, fall 2023
- Ohio State51% admitted · 70,028 applicants, fall 2023
- Rutgers65% admitted · 43,347 applicants, fall 2023
- UNC Chapel Hill19% admitted · 57,902 applicants, fall 2023
- UT Austin29% admitted · 66,109 applicants, fall 2023
- UVA17% admitted · 56,528 applicants, fall 2023
- University of Washington43% admitted · 62,428 applicants, fall 2023
- Wisconsin43% admitted · 63,505 applicants, fall 2023