Review and Notification

Submitted application materials are reviewed by faculty admissions committees in each major program who select the best qualified applicants. These admissions committees base recommendations for admission upon a careful comparison of applications, and this may take considerable time. Graduate Admissions/Student and Academic Affairs, therefore, cannot guarantee that the applicant will receive a response, favorable or unfavorable, on or before any specific date. The applicant, moreover, should not construe a lack of response as an intention to act favorably on the application.

Shortly after receiving your application, Graduate Admissions/Student and Academic Affairs sends an acknowledgment via email. Applicants should expect to receive an email acknowledgment within 72 hours of submitting the online application. 

If you do not receive an email acknowledgment within a reasonable amount of time (five to seven days), please review your online application to be sure the submission process was completed.  Please also be sure to check your "junk" email box, in case UCLA's email was diverted there by your spam filter.

Keep in mind that paying the application fee by check delays the process, often by several weeks. Submitting a check for anything other than the exact amount ($60 for U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents; $80 for all other applicants) of the application fee may delay application by more than that.

When a decision is made, applicants receive an email, directing them to the online application site and the option Decision Status.  Applicants sign in using their email address and password to read the decision letter.

If admitted, the conditions of your admission and information and instruction concerning registration (via a link to the Statement of Intent to Register and a Statement of Legal Residence) will be included as part of your offer of admission letter, which can be printed out from the online application site. (International applicants: please read Visa Procedures/Financial Verification.)

Only official notification from the dean of the Graduate Division constitutes approval of admission.
 

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