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For fall 2010, we received more than 50,000 freshman applications for approximately 10,700 admission spaces, resulting an admit rate of only 21%.* Our applicant pool included nearly 27,500 students with a weighted grade point average of 4.00 or higher significantly more than twice the number of admission spaces available for our fall freshman class.
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<p>Does the 10.7k include only those accepted for the fall term?</p>
<p>These admission stats are pretty scary, considering that 12,943 people were admitted last year, out of 48,671 applicants. 21,545 had a GPA of 4.0+ last year also, so that's an increase of about 6k this year.</p>
<p>I also found this:
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UC Berkeley placed approximately 200 students on its waitlist.
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<p>That's not a lot of people, which worries me because I was already denied to UCLA. My friend received the supplemental for Berkeley, and was already accepted to UCLA, so would that mean that I'm pretty much already rejected from UCB? :|</p>
<p>don’t worry too much.
I personally believe UCB is not hard to get in for in staters…
From my school many got into UCB not UCLA…even though ucla is considered lower than cal.</p>
<p>don’t worry too much. i wasn’t really happy after i got into cal anyway.
if your worthy of getting in, you’ll get in.</p>
<p>wow! I thought the UCs were extremely number based and all 4.0ers would get accepted. But OP. don’t worry about it a lot of UCLA rejects are accepted to CAL. So the two don’t really seem to correlate as much as most think.</p>
<p>aren’t there a lot more admitted because they expect people to reject as well?.. and does anyone know how many spots there are in the College of Engineering?</p>
<p>Funnily, I have heard precisely that LA considers softer factors. </p>
<p>I don’t know, and frankly, at the very least the fact that I was admitted to both with Regents when I applied says that they aren’t EC-obsessed, unless it has changed since then.</p>
<p>mathboy98, i say that because i got regents candidacy at Berkeley with a 2080 and declared ChemE…most of the other people that got engineering regents had 2300+, so it must have been my essays. I didnt get regents for UCLA tho</p>
<p>IB, I think that’s probably concluding too soon :D</p>
<p>Also, the SAT might not be something they take seriously here. “Scores” may be other types of scores – GPA included. Or you may be an anomaly. Most people I know who made it here into the harder majors were good with stats.</p>
<p>WOW!! I’m honestly so surprised by the stats from UC. I used to think that a 4. 0 would gurantee admissions at any UC. But apparently that is not so.</p>
<p>@33hours: the reason it seemed like berkeley was easier to get into last year was because all the UC’s had to decrease its admissions, due to the budget cuts, except berkeley and merced. this year, however, all the UC’s had to decrease their number of acceptances, even berkeley… =(</p>
<p>I heard LA and Cal takes all AP and Honor classes into the weighted category, instead of limiting to two per year like the rest of the UCs. If that’s true, it would be fairly easy to get above 4.0 and I would be puzzled that only half of the applicants done that.</p>
<p>UCLA and Cal look at multiple GPAs - based of course on what you entered since they won’t see a transcript or your high school GPA until you after you commit to attendance. </p>
<p>They just present these multiple ways for the admissions reader - unweighted, UC weighted and fully weighted. Likely they can look other ways, like up or down trends. </p>
<p>The only GPA that is clearly defined and universal across UCs, including those two, is the UC GPA with its limited weighting, thus that is what every one reports here. Well, some report their high school GPA instead of the UC GPA which can be quite a bit different - no plus or minus grades, limited weighting, and it ignores classes that are not part of the a-g categories. That A+ in P.E. won’t do a thing for the UC GPA.</p>
<p>It’s definitely over a 4.0 for Cal & UCLA. I got rejected from UCLA with a 4.27, 7 passed ap tests (three 5s), a 2020 on the SAT, and a lot of leadership points. My friend has several leadership points, a 4.1 and a 2150.</p>
<p>Last year a lot of people with both lower SAT scores and GPAs and less leadership points than me got in. </p>