<p>Acceptance rate is 20.8%
link: <a href="http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/campus-announces-2013-14-freshman-admissions-decisions/%5B/url%5D">http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/18/campus-announces-2013-14-freshman-admissions-decisions/</a></p>
<p>Saw that, thanks for posting. So ~14K are in, but only ~4K will come. Interesting.</p>
<p>“UCLA had the lowest admittance rate across the system, accepting 20.1 percent out of an applicant pool of over 80,000. UC Berkeley accepted 20.8 percent of applicants.”
[UC</a> Berkeley accepts fewer in-state applicants for fall 2013 - The Daily Californian](<a href=“http://www.dailycal.org/2013/04/18/uc-berkeley/]UC”>UC Berkeley accepts fewer in-state applicants for fall 2013)</p>
<p>Previous year yields are shown here:
<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/frosh_trsirs_table1.1.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/frosh_trsirs_table1.1.pdf</a></p>
<p>Being a Cali resident is a huge preference! It makes me wonder why any Cali resident would leave the state?</p>
<p>@sosomenza: I applied out of state - the vast majority of the colleges I applied to were privates in the Midwest and on the East Coast. I was rejected everywhere. 
Though I’m happy to go to Berkeley (both it and UCLA were match schools for me, and I got in to both) and love being close enough to home to spend time with my grandparents as they get older, some tiny, bitter part of me will always wonder how things would be different if I had gone further away.</p>
<p>That, and the fact that many Californians have little faith in the continuing financial woes for the state education system - most think (somewhat correctly) that privates OOS can offer better money than in-state.</p>
<p>thesmiter hit it on the head. The price of UCs has risen insanely high in the last 6-7 years alone, more than doubling tuition wise. It’s very our of peoples control. Our S same applied to a bunch of schools, got on a couple waitlists. Backups like Pitt and Alabama, just incase he reconsiders finances. We get very little from Berkeley and it will be very difficult to pay. But the LACs like Grinnell and Macalaster that he got into and was thinking about were about the same price. He did FIRST robotics this year and it totally solidified his desire to be an engineer. So the LACs fell off the table. Even though I really like the smaller school personal attention that LACs offer. Plus he doesn’t like to say it, but Berkeley had lots of friends going and he wanted to go and know some people just in case.</p>
<p>It was funny though Pitt and Bama constantly sent information about the scholarship they offered and its total value. Sigh it was hard giving up free money. I was just worrying about keeping up GPA at Pitt and it wasn’t full tuition but close. Bama was free but location killed it. So Berkeley it was even though its across the bay he’s dorming it. =(</p>