<p>Which is harder to get into? and what about transfer ease?</p>
<p>From the Los Angeles Times (April 2010):</p>
<p>Applicants to UCLA and UC Berkeley once again had the hardest time. UCLA accepted only 21% of in-state applicants, compared to 21.4% last year, and UC Berkeley admitted 24.5%, down from 29.5% last year. The next toughest were UC San Diego, 36.8%; UC Santa Barbara, 41.7%; UC Davis, 44.5%; UC Irvine 45.4%; UC Santa Cruz, 64.9%; UC Riverside, 77.4%; and UC Merced, 78%.</p>
<p>This is for in state.</p>
<p>For out of state, both UCLA and UC Berkeley are very selective.</p>
<p>No simple answer bcos geography plays a role – (both campuses like to tout their geographic diversity to the Regents and Legislature). OTOH, both campuses also recognize that local kids can attend cheaper (and will attend if admitted), so they will accept local transfers over those in the backyard of the other campuses.</p>
<p>For Frosh admissions, for several years LA appeared to give higher weight to the Writing score – dunno why.</p>
<p>Just my suppositions/observations over the years.</p>
<p>Iv heard UC’s are accepting more out of state because they need the money? or would i have a better chance of transferring from a lower tier UC, than applying as an out of state freshman?</p>
<p>Which is the more difficult school to get into from out of state? Berkeley or LA?</p>
<p>It’s equally difficult to get into LA and Berkeley. It’s very common to be accepted into LA but not Berkeley, or Berkeley but not LA. UCLA has a lower acceptance rate, but Berkeley’s average admitted stats are slightly higher, so the difficulty seems to pretty much even out.</p>
<p>It is difficult to transfer between UC’s, some don’t take transfers from other UC’s at all. Community College transfers have priority. OOS admits at Berkeley were 8% of total. At UCLA it was 10 percent of total admits according to latest collegeboard.com</p>