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To submit a letter to the editor, click here. Want to purchase today’s print edition? Here’s a map of single-copy locations. Sign up for our daily newsletter here As sports icons go, no member of the Big Ten (or any other conference) can match UCLA, whose Hall of Fame features Jackie Robinson and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Arthur Ashe and Lew Alcindor, “FloJo” and “The Wizard of Westwood.
” Today, in the first of a four-part series introducing readers in Big Ten country to the conference’s four newest members, we convened a special panel to help tell the Bruins’ story. Banan Garada 1. Scooch over, Michigan.
The Big Ten will soon have a new No. 1 in two major categories. 2021 Urbana High alumna BANAN GARADA, who’s on track to earn her UCLA bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering in 2025: “UCLA is the most applied to school in the nation,” with 145,904 applicants — 8.
8 percent of which were accepted — in 2023. That’s 58,883 more than No. 10 Michigan, the current Big Ten leader (17 percent acceptance rate).
“UCLA has also produced the greatest number of Olympic medalists from public colleges in the U.S. and Olympians will be hosted on campus for the 2028 L.
A. Olympics.” The Bruins’ 270 medalists headed into this summer’s Paris Olympics include 136 golds.
Michigan (155 medalists, 71 golds) and Ohio State (118, 52) lead the Big Ten as it.