<p>Of course everyone has heard of the famous “conspiracy theory” that if you get into UCLA, the chances of you getting admitted to UCB are very slim and vice versa. What have you guys heard about this? Think it’s true? If indeed this is true, anyone have a preference?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's true, because a lot of people here didn't get accepted to UCLA, and my friend from UCLA says that hardly anyone got into Cal there... weird? Well, a friend told me that 10% of applicants get into both UCLA and Cal. (I was one last year :)). It's kinda a screwed up system, though, since I know that my roommates were both shooting for UCLA. I know people who wanted to go to UCLA but applied to Cal 'cause its just press a button and 'what the hell, i'll try for it.' Then they don't get into UCLA and end up at Cal. Good for those people, not so good for the people who get into UCLA instead of Cal... (in my biased opinion :p)</p>
<p>i dont know if that is true, because both my brother (2003-2004) and my sister (2001-2002) got accepted to both of them.......so dunno if that is luck, or really good stats or what</p>
<p>I guess they're in the 10% then. </p>
<p>I'm worried because I got into UCLA and I'd much rather go to Cal. My parents made me apply to UCLA even though I didn't want to risk admission to Cal.</p>
<p>If this gives you any hope, all the students from my high school class who got accepted to UCLA (all three of them lol) also got accepted to Cal; many more students were accepted to Cal (and by 'many,' I mean three more kids lol), but that doesn't ring true for all high schools. Of the students who got accepts to LA, we are going to MIT, UCLA, and Cal.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouraging post! It makes me feel better. :)</p>
<p>ditto sunkist184!!! i totally don't want to go to ucla, but i got in...</p>
<p>i got into both</p>
<p>I believe the UC's make decisions independent of each other. I think its just one of those things people tell you to scare you during the admissions process. By the way I got accepted to every UC, so I guess I am an exception to your theory.</p>
<p>FinalGear is right, at least I am sure of it. If they were secretly conferring with each other, they wouldn't be sending out invites for Regents' and whatever else to both B and LA.
I think most people who want to go to either UCB or UCLA apply to both anyway. At my school, my counselor virtually gave me the nastiest look when she saw I had just put UCB down, ... so she about made me put down more UC's. I doubt I was the only one having to apply to more, and the individual UC's know that. I think UC's are competing with each other as much as they compete with privates.</p>
<p>When I applied for 2002, I got into both.</p>
<p>Just to clarify... people do get into both. Hell, I got into both. But a lot of the people who get into one don't get into the other (the 90%). I'm sure you all do (or all will) have more friends who get into only one of the schools than both, even if you thought they were qualified for both. Wait til you get to one of those schools.... SO many people got rejected from UCLA that ended up here!</p>
<p>I got into both... I think people are just in denial. There is no conspiracy theory. I know a bunch of people who got into both schools last year, so it's totally BS.</p>
<p>Thanks for the opinions guys. =) Still hoping for Cal.</p>
<p>I think its BS.</p>
<p>They review applications seperately.</p>
<p>I got into both last year, but my mind tells me that there was a slight.. VERY slight trend for Cal students now not to get into UCLA and UCLA students not to get into Cal.
Last year, in my class, almost 90% of all people going to Cal were accepted to UCLA (very very competitive public high school, #5 in state).</p>
<p>how could you get into cal but not getting into ucla? ucla's way easier, and i dont know a single person who got into cal who didn't get into ucla (and my school sends like 20-30 kids to cal every year).</p>
<p>i'm sure on occasion a few cal kids don't get into la, but i'd hardley say it happens on a regular basis.</p>
<p>its not "way easier," the stats for ucla and berkeley are very similar, although berkeley has a slightly higher gpa/sat profile</p>
<p>Very similar stats, almost equal, and UCLA's admit rate is slightly lower than Cal's because they get more applicants. No way is one student body better than the other.</p>
<p>are these statistics for in-staters and out-of-staters? i actually heard different. something like 90% of those who made it to berkeley also made it to ucla. and 73% of those who made it into ucla also made it into berkeley. (for in-staters)</p>
<p>just wanted to say that most everyone in my school, my community in fact, who gets into cal gets into ucla, and vice versa.</p>
<p>and yes, i do know people who get into UCLA and not cal, and some who get into cal and not ucla. 10% seems like WAY too low of a number (esp for in-staters). </p>
<p>there are also many people who are invited for regents for both UCLA and berkeley, so this has to disprove the rumor.</p>