Chances of UCLA Engineering Admit Going to Berkeley?

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<p>If I got into UCLA engineering as a computer science major and applied for Berkeley engineering undeclared, what are my chances?</p>

<p>Btw, I did not get the likely letter from Berkeley but I did get the UCLA one.</p>

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<p>I'm curious about the same thing :)</p>

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<p>I'm curious about the same thing.</p>

<p>I got the UCLA letter saying I was a top applicant and then got accepted into Computer Science under Engineering. I applied to Berkeley under Electric Engineering and Computer Science -- Computer Science. I wonder what my chances are. (If it helps, my UC GPA uncapped is around 4.3 and my SAT is around 2230).</p>

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<p>But we also have to consider the fact that Berkeley's engineering is wayyy more competitive..</p>

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<p>I'm wondering if the Berkeley letter was as important as the one I got for UCLA Engineering, because there is only one or two posts for the Berkeley one, while the UCLA threads are filled with chats about that letter? I really hope it wasn't an important letter. makes me wonder if I should have applied undeclared instead for engineering, even if I am female.</p>

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<p>Berkeley engineering is definitely harder to get into than UCLA engineering. If you have overall what you'd consider to be pretty impressive stats, have very high grades in the most rigorous schedule possible, you definitely have a good shot, but I do know that while UCLA and Berkeley are of similar difficulty to get into overall, Berkeley engineering is definitely harder.</p>

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Berkeley engineering is definitely harder to get into than UCLA engineering.

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<p>Do you have proof for this?</p>

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<p>^I don't know.but I take his word for it; afterall, he is almighty King Mathboy!</p>

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<p>What is that letter you are talking about? Is it anything like the UCLA Engineering likely letter?</p>

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Do you have proof for this?

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<p>I don't have percentages or anything off hand, but I am rather confident given the patterns I have observed. What makes me make such a definitive statement is that similar people tend to apply to the UCs, and while LA is certainly a slightly different school, I tend to observe that at UC schools the competition to get into specific departments (that're traditionally hard to get into) tends to dominate a lot of the process. Even just from this, I'd say Berkeley engineering admissions end up being more competitive. If you're talking something like EECS, it's especially apparent.</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/649130-likely-letter-women-engineering-im-guy.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-berkeley/649130-likely-letter-women-engineering-im-guy.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Ihaveseniorities -- if you wanted to get into engineering, you did the wisest thing by applying to engineering, not undeclared.</p>

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<p>I got an Engineering Likely Letter from UCLA and got admitted thereafter, but I didn't get things like Likely Letter from UC Berkeley. Does this mean I've got no chance of Berkeley or simply Berkeley doesn't send Likely Letters?</p>

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<p>bobaboy: Based on your stats alone, I'd say you have a great shot.</p>

<p>Here are some data on admissions rates for Berkeley:
<a href="https://osr2.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/Access/DB/Frontends/runapp.pl%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://osr2.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/Access/DB/Frontends/runapp.pl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Looking at Berkeley's admissions rate for Fall 2008, 1789 were accepted out of 8851 applicants, which works out to be around 20%.</p>

<p>EDIT: That includes transfers too. For only incoming freshman, its 1525/7795 or 19.6%.</p>

<p>Apparently, it's 33% for UCLA's College of Engineering:
Acceptance</a> rates at UCLA? - Yahoo! Answers</p>

<p>I think mathboy has the right idea...</p>