Legendre

PhD Math. Not confirmed attending yet but most likely at this point in time.

Before you guys burn me at the stake: I'm not from the USA, and I did my undergrad and masters in the UK. So, other than "famous" places like Princeton, Harvard, Yale, MIT, UPenn etc, I have no idea what the top tier schools are. E.g. I have only heard of Duke and University of Michigan recently. Question: How competitive is UCLA for Applied Mathematics PhD? Or rather, which "class" of schools does UCLA belong to, based on how hard it is to get in for a PhD in Applied Mathematics? I suppose "top tier" places like the Ivy League, UPenn, Chicago, MIT, Michigan, UC Berkeley etc belong in the same class. Then there are excellent but a little less competitive places like the University of Washington (Seattle), University of Texas (Austin), University of Illinois (UC). Where does UCLA lie?