<p>I keep hearing about this and wondered if it's true? It worries me because I really want to get into Berkeley. I was accepted by UCLA, am an international student, do not need financial aid and the rest of my stats are:</p>
<p>(btw, I am Taiwanese/Chinese)</p>
<p>Applied as an undeclared major to the college of letters and sciences</p>
<p>SAT 1: 2190 (M: 780, CR: 800, W: 630)
SAT 2: 720 Math2, 740 Bio
Rank: 2/189
GPA W: 4.07 (I don't know my unweighted GPA)</p>
<p>Course load:
IB Diploma
Pysch, Bio, Chem, Eng HL
French, Math SL</p>
<p>EC:
speaks 4 languages: english, mandarin, french, thai
community service project at an orphanage: 7-12
Debate: 9- 12 (executive member in 11th grade and president in 12th grade)
Cross country: 11-12
Intern: 11th grade at a university's microbio lab
global issues club: 10-12 (executive member in 11th grade and president in 12th)
i can't think of anymore for the moment...</p>
<p>Some people get accepted to neither. Some get accepted to only UCLA. Some get accepted to only UC Berkeley. Some get accepted to both.</p>
<p>I’ve seen cases of all four. There’s no use in worrying now; the results will be released soon, and anything you do now will unlikely change your result in any positive manner.</p>
<p>The two schools have different applicant pools and different admissions tendencies. The stereotype is that UCLA cares more about your numbers while Cal is more holistic. You don’t look like you’ll have any difficulty getting in here, though.</p>
<p>UCLA had 72,000 applicants for 5,400 Freshman spots, so congratulations on getting accepted. Although there are certainly no guarantees that you will get accepted to Cal, I would think the odds would be in your favor based on fewer applicants for more spots. I am of the opinion that Cal is more numbers driven than UCLA and not less. Based on the UCLA decision thread on CC, there were kids who got accepted with SAT I scores around 1,900-2,000, and some kids who were waitlisted or rejected with scores in the 2200-2300 range. </p>
<p>Exactly. I’ve seen students accepted to Stanford but rejected by UCLA, or accepted by Hopkins with merit money, but rejected by Cal. Anecdotes to be sure, but the point is that they were (obviously) highly qualified students to be accepted to other highly selective schools.</p>
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<p>yes, but the difference is mostly in residence; more SoCal residents apply to UCLA than Cal, for example. And Cal receives more International apps. Their acceptance numbers (gpa+test scores) are similar.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to hijack the thread, but i’m curious… If someone has a full time job does Cal still want to see ec’s like community service and other things of that nature?</p>