<p>^if this is true how can you say that it isn't going to be more competitive with applications going from 50,000 to over 86,000? Last year at around 48,000 the SAT range was 1280-1500 unsuperscored and a 20% acceptance rate. Also last year it seems they overenrolled somewhat and UC is possibly going to cut enrollment so it is definately going to be much more competitive this year if this is true which I still can't believe until I see a press release saying they received this many applications.</p>
<p>what do you mean no quarter?</p>
<p>more applications = more competitive... less acceptance rate.</p>
<p>if a school accepts 8000/40000 applications, their acceptance rate is 20%
if a school accepts 8600/86000 applications, their acceptance rate is 10%</p>
<p>that means its more competitive.</p>
<p>also, yes, i believe a lot of competitive applicants, who could've gone to cornell, stanford, nyu, etc, would choose to go to berkeley instead.</p>
<p>My argument is that there are few CA residents that ONLY would've applied to competitive privates in the past, but the current economic situation has forced them to apply to UCs only, inflating the number of compettive applicants. So yes, artifically, the applications might get more competitive but definitley not the same way as an increase in good economic times would be.</p>
<p>Yes, matriculation rates might increase, but a) would not matter given that the number of competitve berkeley applicants wouldn't neccesarily increase and b) would affect admissiosn differently than say if 20,000 more applicants applied and they represented the normal mold of berkeley applicants.</p>
<p>I like how everyone believes in an unexplained one-year increase in applications by 30,000+ based on a sports recruiter telling some guy on a web forum something.</p>
<p>Legit! Oos ftw!</p>
<p>That is insane, even if it is false or just a rumor. I wonder how the increased applications are going to affect the lower ranked UCs too..sheesh. This makes me really worried..</p>
<p>i really wouldnt doubt it. my friend and i both applied to dartmouth ed and got rejected. we were told by dartmouth that their ed applicant numbers went from about 11,500 to 16,000 this year.</p>
<p>TheBlackLantern....fyi, Dartmouth ED apps were 1,550 this year, a 9% growth from last year (by my calculation, making their number last year = 1,422):
Dartmouth</a> News - Dartmouth admits 401 students through early decision - 12/11/08</p>
<p>I read in the LA Times this weekend, and heard on the news that Arnold is trying to up the oos students to get extra $$$, meaning more acceptances to OOS if true. Guess we'll find out in a few months.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who finds the number 86,000 incredulous?</p>
<p>Last year there were only 11,043 transfer applicants and 48,462 freshman applicants. 86,000 would represent a HUGE 44.5% increase in # of applicants. Now, if 86000 was the number of undergraduate AND graduate applicants...</p>
<p>I remember St Andrews University in Scotland, UK had a 64% increase in number of applications received after Prince William announced that he's attending there.</p>
<p>oh what the........ guess my friend was wrong but i really wouldnt doubt the 86k</p>
<p>omg o.o does this mean my berk dream ... is shattered? =S
no good~! sheesh</p>
<p>The 86,000 figure is WAAAAY off. This year's undergrad application counts are not radically different from the last few years. I'm not authorized to release any statistics, but you can check this one off your worry list!</p>
<p>^ Thanks! =]</p>
<p>Called it...</p>
<p>Lawl.
People, did you really think that the total number of applications received would go from 48,400 to 86,000+ in ONE year? Come on.</p>
<p>Then people wonder when I get annoyed with them thinking that all Berkeley students are smart. Uh, clearly, no, many are not.</p>
<p>bartleby get over yourself although I would have had to read the official release to believe it 86,000 applications isn't completely impossible given CA has over 38 million ppl and the way the economy is right now. 86,000 apps if you would look at CA is only probably around 23% or less of the total graduating class this year and thats saying every app is an instate student, not including OOS. I thought it was very unlikely, but still possible.</p>
<p>yeah bartleby, i doubt you were confident that you were right until mBA announced it. its all right in hindsight, but get over yourself man</p>