<p>The admissions offices for both schools process thousands and thousands of applications and have to read through a LOT of essays. I really really really doubt that they have spent the time and money to develop a conspiracy theory to communicate with each other and 1) see who applied to both campuses, 2) ask each other whether or not that person got accepted into both, and 3) decide whether or not one school should withdraw its offer because the person maybe only deserves an offer from one UC and not both.</p>
<p>Think about what this would require logistically. :)</p>
<p>umm. its all online, so it would be relatively easy to program some arbitrary algorithm which coordinates UCB and UCLA admissions. That said, I don't believe they do it; but it is clearly feasible</p>
<p>actually ucla's gpa is equal to cal's now. i know as many people who got into la and rejected from cal as i do who got into cal and rejected from la. the two schools are virtually equal now in funding and education wise, although cal has the better engineering and business schools and ucla has the better humanities and premed program</p>
<p>Perhaps Cal and LA are just looking for different things in an applicant. LA and Cal are now both competitive enough to be picky. If you fit what both LA and Cal want then you'll be accepted, but if one values leadership and grades over say, national distinction and/or test scores it's entirely possible many competitive applicants only get into one.</p>
<p>Hey, what about out of staters? ( i cant talk about how many people my school sends to UCs...we've NEVER had a person accepted to UCLA or UC-BERk before me lol, which is SAD)...anyways i did get into ucla, but i wanna go to cal... what do u guys think the chances are for out of staters?
i assume they wont give us both since we shoudl be thanking that we got into EITHER anyways (?)</p>