Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (UARS) informs, attracts, and admits undergraduate students to meet UCLA's enrollment, qualitative, and diversity goals. The functions of the office can be divided into two broad categories: recruitment and admissions.

Recruitment.
Admissions office staff visit high schools and community colleges, sponsor and attend conferences, develop and distribute informational literature, counsel prospective students, and coordinate campus tours in order to recruit new freshmen and transfer students. For students who have been admitted, recruitment staff undertake a series of events, often called yield programs, designed to encourage these students to enroll at UCLA.

Admissions.
UCLA receives more undergraduate applications than any other school in the nation. The main responsibilities of admissions processing are to review these applications and make admission decisions. They also provide evaluation services (determining whether and how course work at other colleges/universities should be counted for credit at UCLA) for current and reentering UCLA students.