Is CAL still considered the #1 UC even though UCLA has a lower admit rate?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Is CAL still considered the #1 UC even though UCLA has a lower admit rate?</p>

<p>Cal: 26.6% 12943 admits
UCLA: 21.7% 12083 admits</p>

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<p>yes…it’s more prestigious and higher ranked</p>

<p>also, acceptance rates are not everything…</p>

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<p>Cal is still the number 1 UC because it still is more prestigious, has better programs across all major fields, better student body (despite having a higher admit rate as demonstrated by the students’ HS GPA, Class Ranks, SATs, etc), better faculty lineups, better and more state-of-the-art facilities and better products whose graduates go on to lead large organizations or communities. Cal graduates earn more than their UCLA counterparts too.</p>

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<p>yes…</p>

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<p>Here is another example where lower admit rate doesn’t mean the school is better.</p>

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<p>yes.
lower admit rate means very little in academic quality and prestige.</p>

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<p>More dumb people think they might get into UCLA.</p>

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<p>Like the gazillion of apps that get thrown at NYU bcos of its location (New York City!), UCLA receives a bunch of apps from kids who want to be in SoCal – sun & fun at the beach – not bcos of academics per se.</p>

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<p>Aren’t many students in California sending “common” applications to a great number of UC schools at the same time? Isn’t the pool of applicants and admitted students at Cal and UCLA remarkably similar as most students who have earned the right to apply do it using a blanket approach? </p>

<p>There is hardy anything to learn from analyzing the admissions data of the separate UC schools, and especially very little as far as comparative data for selectivity. </p>

<p>Prestige, on the other hand, remains entirely in the eye of the beholder, as it anchored in perceptions and depends very much on the thickness of the rosy glasses one decides to wear.</p>

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Then why were there 55k students applied to UCLA and 48k applied to Cal?
Clearly, those extra 7k were delusional, thinking they might be able to get into to UCLA.<br>
A normal student would apply to both.
A delusional student would apply to one.</p>

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<p>xiggi:</p>

<p>even on cc alone, there are (hundreds?) kids who apply to UCLA to get out of the midwest/east/cold weather. It’s just when the bill becomes due that momma and papa refuse to pay the $50k price tag.</p>

<p>Then of couse, local geography comes into play: the LA region is larger than the Bay Area. Since most kids prefer to attend college close to home…</p>