<p>okay well not ALL but a good majority?</p>
<p>maybe, but theres a whole lot of people that prefer sd over la.</p>
<p>most of the time...</p>
<p>LA admission rate=23%, SD admission rate=40%. Not way too much of an overlap. At my school it seemed like half the people that got into SD didn't get into LA, but then there are the untold stories of the people that didn't get into either =/</p>
<p>UCSD, UCLA and Berkeley are all considered "top tier" UC's, and are considered to be quite prestigious, so a lot of the people at UCSD probably want to be there by choice. The focus of UCSD is quite different from UCLA and Berkeley, as it doesn't have the big NCAA sports programs like the other two. Furthermore, it is broken up into smaller colleges, so it doesn't feel so much like a large university.</p>
<p>UCLA rejects are spread out all over the other UC and CSU and even community college campuses.......</p>
<p>yes, i would say that most ucla rejects end up going to ucsd. interestingly, im an opposite. got rejected at my dream school (ucsd) and am going to end up going to ucla. hah strange.</p>
<p>Official California rejection pecking order:</p>
<p>Stanford/Caltech -> rejection -> UCB/UCLA -> rejection -> USC/UCSD -> rejection -> UCI/UCD/UCSB/Cal Poly SLO -> rejection -> UCSC/UCR/SDSU/Cal Poly Pomona -> rejection -> Other Cal States/UCM/community college :rolleyes:</p>
<p>yes, and i agree with flopsy...except the caltech part which many people don't apply to....</p>
<p>lol. I got into UCLA for Electrical Engineering but I got denied at UCSD for Electrical Engineering. Granted, I prefer UCLA over UCSD anyways..</p>
<p>flopsy, you are off the mark regarding the "other cal states" piece. san diego state for example is extraordinarily more selective than cal poly pomona, in large part because state is cresting a wave and pomona is going in the opposite direction. a similar case can be made for long beach state among others. even pomona's vaunted collins school has given up finding a dean for four years.</p>
<p>and what do you know about merced? i would invite the selectivity mavens on this board to provide data that proves pomona is more selective than merced.</p>
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Official California rejection pecking order:</p>
<p>Stanford/Caltech -> rejection -> UCB/UCLA -> rejection -> USC/UCSD -> rejection -> UCI/UCD/UCSB/Cal Poly SLO -> rejection -> UCSC/UCR/SDSU/Cal Poly Pomona -> rejection -> Other Cal States/UCM/community college
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<p>uhhh don't ucla and usc have the same freshman acceptance rate? I think sc has a lower transfer rate. </p>
<p>a lot of people i know chose to take the cc to upper tier uc route than to go to riverside.</p>
<p>yeah i go to a pretigious school.</p>
<p>Where would you put Pomona and Harvey Mudd (Claremonts) as part of the California pecking order?</p>
<p>probably right around cal/ucla, IMO.</p>
<p>"probably right around cal/ucla, IMO."</p>
<p>depends what you consider prestige. if you are talking about phd stats, sat and ap scores, $ after graduation, then i'd say mudd is a bit higher.</p>
<p>Pomona Mudd and CMC should go in between caltech/stanford and cal/ucla. Scripps is possibly around ucd, or inbetween ucla and ucd. Pitzer is probably around uci or inbetween usc and uci.</p>
<p>so the pecking order is now something like this?:
Stanford/Caltech -> rejection ->Pomona/Mudd ->rejection> UCB/UCLA -> rejection -> USC/UCSD -> rejection -> Scripps/UCI/UCD/UCSB/Cal Poly SLO -> rejection -> UCSC/UCR/SDSU/Cal Poly Pomona -> rejection -> Other Cal States/UCM/community college</p>
<p>oops when I said ucd I actually meant UCSD...</p>
<p>I would say it is like:
Stanford/Caltech -> rejection ->Pomona/Mudd ->rejection> CMC/UCB/UCLA -> rejection -> USC/Scripps/UCSD -> rejection -> UCI/UCD/Pitzer/UCSB/Cal Poly SLO -> rejection -> UCSC/UCR/SDSU/Cal Poly Pomona -> rejection -> Other Cal States/UCM/community college</p>