86,584 applied to get a chance to attend UCLA.

LA Weekly reports.

UCLA Gets More Applications Than Any Other U.S. College

UCLA isn’t the best school in America, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges list. It tied with USC for number 24 on the list.

It is, however, the most popular university among college hopefuls.

UCLA gets more applications than any other school across the land, U.S. News & World Report says. And it’s not the first time. The publication states:

The University of California-Los Angeles once again attracted the most applications, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 1,258 institutions. At UCLA, 86,548 Bruin hopefuls sent transcripts and test scores. It outpaced the University of California—Berkeley, which was runner-up, by more than 10,000 submissions.
The school has an acceptance rate of 18.55 percent.

U.S. News says California institutions took nine of the spots on the list of top 10 schools for application volume. Why?