<p>I got into UCSD two days ago. Needless to say, I'm pretty anxious to hear back from LA next week. I'm not too familiar with UCLA's admission policy (including this new holistic approach they are taking this year). </p>
<p>Does anyone know how much more difficult it is to get into UCLA than UCSD? Are there any obvious differences?</p>
<p>I heard rumors that although UCLA demands a higher academic profile, UCSD is more stat-based overall.</p>
<p>I'd like to know too. Is UCLA going to come out before Berkeley? Does anyone know?</p>
<p>I thought they both come out on the 29th.</p>
<p>I heard it's the 30th.</p>
<p>Well, Berkeley sends out decisions on the 29th, don't know about UCLA.</p>
<p>UCLA i'd say is definitely a lot more random than SD. so more difficult-yeah i'd say so...UCLA/Berk can't admit as many people so they have to use that holistic approach stuff and sometimes make some really random decisions. You're gonna be like, "how the **** did this guy get in and this guy didn't?" but for SD i think there's less of that.</p>
<p>I would have probably agreed with the above poster a couple days ago...but ever since getting rejected by SD, and seeing on CC/ knowing people who have gotten rejected this year, it has become random/weird as fck in some cases too...don't know what's going on, but I'm praying for LA</p>
<p>UCLA is more difficult to apply to. But in many aspects, UCSD is better than UCLA and some people even turn down UCB or UCLA to go to UCSD. Here are some "bad" things about UCLA:</p>
<p>In the 80's, it took 5 years to graduate from UCLA: 4 years to study, 1 year to find a parking slot.
Now, it take 6 years to graduate from UCLA: 4 years to study, 1 year to find a parking slot, 1 year to add classes.</p>
<p>Oh man hahah....</p>
<p>are any of you familiar with USC? </p>
<p>I was wondering if someone can tell me if I had a better chance at Usc than UCLA</p>
<p>it depends. a few of my friends got into usc but got rejected by UCSD. Factors like legacy and can you pay for college become other aspects that can help you get into USC. so far the avg sat score for ppl who have gotten into usc has been around a 2000 and a 3.9-4.0 weighted. Granted a few of them can pay for college and that may have been the thing that pushed them in</p>
<p>how can whether you can pay or not pay for usc affect ur admission?</p>
<p>isn't usc need blind</p>
<p>well UCSD's point system is majorly flawed, as they arbitrarily give out points. pretty random, imo. but i think holistic admissions is much better. they see the person as a whole, rather than a bunch of numbers and points. </p>
<p>i mean really, how logical is it to assign points for people's achievements? you cant really decide whether one activity is more 'important' than another without knowing the impact, etc. points system is flawed</p>
<p>okay haha </p>
<p>so getting back to the matter at hand. its entirely possible to get into LA especially if you are well rounded and are able to stand out amongst the crowd. getting rejected to SD is no indication of whether or not you'll get accepted to LA.</p>
<p>well, I hope you're right Gogogo, i just keep thinking im already rejected from LA now...so depressing</p>
<p>well i got rejected from SD. and i know many other on this forum that have been rejected as well. They were certainly qualified - esp compared to others with much lower stats but in poverty (i mean, arent the decisions supposed to be 80% academics? something fishy here) </p>
<p>but if you look at LA's forum on cc, there is a similar topic
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=315954%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=315954</a></p>
<p>you will see that many of the LA fanatics are as confused as us SD fanatics esp. since they were highly qualified, etc but still got rejected to SD. for goodness sakes, some were already accepted to LA for engineering but were somehow rejected from SD. how is that even logical.</p>
<p>i know...very very messed up....</p>
<p>That explains it...</p>
<p>I'm an academically borderline kid in poverty... who's also accomplished a lot outside of school.</p>