<p>I heard that if you get into one already, than its very hard for you to get in the other?? is this true?</p>
<p>i thought the porportion that got into Cal that also got into LA is in the high 90%. This porportion would negate the statement above.</p>
<p>So whats the word</p>
<p>This might be true.</p>
<p>I've known quite a few people who were rejected from LA and got into Cal in past years.</p>
<p>yes...i def heard this before...even though i heard it before i dont think its true.</p>
<p>anyone else want to contribute?</p>
<p>and if it's true why would they do such a thing</p>
<p>I imagine that adcoms have tons of statistics on their class along with demographics. Such as what % of their freshmen class is made up of x, y, z groups. How many accept acceptance and so on.</p>
<p>That said i doubt theres a super secret squirrel conspiracy of one admit per student.</p>
<p>I really don't think so. The majority of students at my school get into both.</p>
<p>i just got into both. I've never heard this rumor before either.</p>
<p>i've heard it, but don't think it's true. two of my cousins got into both</p>
<p>Definitely don' think it's true--they're completely independent of each other.</p>
<p>:rolleyes: What does common sense tell you?</p>
<p>They're both independent of each other, but since UC's are so competitive, many people either get into one or the other, so this is probably where the myth comes from.</p>
<p>absolutely false,
my friend asked a berkeley board of admissions member and she said that each school has independent offices of admissions that operate alone</p>
<p>I know that statistics might not be on my side here... but I've known several people rejected from UCLA who got into CAL.</p>
<p>Personally, I think its harder to get into LA...</p>
<p>So you prob still have a chance at CAL if u were rejected from LA</p>
<p>hmm. well.. i also know people who got into berkeley and not la, and la and not berkeley. but i also know tons of people who get into both, i being one. however, the rumor does seem to hold some relevence, but i dont' think it's true. i think it's just something that they say haha. i think ucla bases their decision on many things. i also think that if your stats are too high, they will also reject you because they know you will choose another school over them and not come to ucla, therefore, taking the spot of someone else who could have been admitted. get it? although the trend that i see with who went to berkeley and who went to la.. berkeley are the bookworms, and la has the bookworms that have a social life haha.</p>
<p>well, it may be that one of the two rejects a student that the other admits just because both schools understand that they are highly competitive and that a candidate can only choose one of the two anyway.</p>
<p>I sincerely hope that that made sense. Anyway, I was wondering for my sister's sake (she is currently a sophomore, has had only two B's; both in Calculus from one of the worst teachers at the school) if, during admissions review, the college considers the grades that students earn their senior year? I remember hearing somewhere that UC's generally do not factor in senior year, which may hurt my sister's chances in the future.</p>
<p>Well I believe it's false, but we see it happen so many times that it just makes us think something is going on. This happened to me as well when I applied last year and got into LA, but not Cal. But since I wanted Cal pretty badly I decided to go to CC and transfer there, hopefully.</p>
<p>uh, until i see a graph with a correlation showing UCLA admits not getting into cal, then i'll have to assert that the statement is false. </p>
<p>many people who get into UCLA get into cal. many people who get into UCLA also get rejected from cal. and vice versa. </p>
<p>there's even a UCLA facebook group called "Berkeley rejectors - we got into Berkeley but chose UCLA instead"</p>
<p>I doubt that's true. I got into both UCLA and Cal...no truth to the rumor.</p>
<p>The UC's do not consider senior grades in admissions. The UC GPA only counts 10th and 11th grades. My sister skipped junior year, so she only had one year of grades count.</p>
<p>Would it be safe to say that now that I got into UCLA, I probably have a greater than 50% chance at getting into Berkeley? I'm OOS and pretty new to all of this UC talk.</p>