Acceptance to both UCLA/UC Berkeley?

Applying to College
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<p>I heard through the grapevine that students who apply to both UCLA and UC Berkeley are only accepted to one or the other (if at all) but not both. Is this true and is it possible to withdraw my application to a UC?</p>

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<p>This was posted in the UC Berkeley livejournal (<a href="http://ucberkeley.livejournal.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ucberkeley.livejournal.com&lt;/a&gt;) a while back, and the responses were: no. There are numerous students who got into both. In fact, I have a feeling that there is a big overlap between the two, since they're roughly on par with one another, and often when an applicant applies to one, he or she applies to the other. And since their admit stats are roughly the same, it's very possible to get into both.</p>

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<p>It's funny because people at my school either got into UCLA or Berkeley but only few got into both.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the replies and link. Very helpful.</p>

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<p>absolutely not true. Eleven out of the top 12 kids at our HS were accepted at both. The one who didn't get into Cal went to Hopkins. However, perhaps bcos we're in SoCal, a bunch more kids got into UCLA but not Cal, but, of course, not all of them applied to Cal.</p>

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<p>I got into both Cal and UCLA. Like the others are saying, that's just a myth.</p>

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<p>yea, my bro got into both</p>

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<p>lol its completley not true. LA and Cal are completely unaffected by teh decisions the other makes. PPl dont get into both alto of times simply because both are top 30 schools. Soemone who gets into Dartmouth wont automatically get into any other Ivy, its the same thing. But if someone got into UCLA and not UCI then that would be questionable.</p>

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<p>Thanks to everyone-I feel much better</p>

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<p>NEVVVAAAHHHH! </p>

<p>Just kidding. As you know, it's possible.</p>

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<p>You were all right-I did get into both. Thanks for holding my hand while I waited.</p>

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<p>Congrats! =)</p>

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<p>Not true, got in both.</p>

<p>I do wonder if they share the names in the UC system - I mean, out of the time that UCLA spends reading 50000 applications, plus matching with the applicants at Cal ;)</p>