<p>I know it's possible to get rejected at UCLA and still get into UCB, because I've seen it happen to one guy. Of course, it was only one guy. How often does it happen?</p>
<p>Actually, it happens quite often. People usually get rejected at one, but accepted to the other. I don't have any proof regarding this matter, but the word of others should back my case up.</p>
<p>Happens all the time at my school. If you are from norcal, berkeley is more likely to accept you. at my school, about an hour from berkeley, about 7 people got into Cal while 5 of those people got rejected from ucla.</p>
<p>Are they more likely to accept you if you have interned there?</p>
<p>Let's hope to God it happens often. Muted disappointment right now with UCLA but a rejection from Cal will hurt a lot more. A week to get ready for it though as not getting into UCLA can't be a Good thing for chances at Cal.</p>
<p>saasaa- Come to think of it my school's kinda the same way I think. I'm only a half hour away from Berkeley. Hoping for good news from there now that I'm rejected from UCLA.</p>
<p>Does Berkeley actually have a NorCal bias?
I've never heard of this.</p>
<p>yes and UCLA has a socal bias.... it's not explicitly stated but it makes a lot of sense</p>
<ol>
<li>housing crisis in UCs... if someone is local they can commute possibly</li>
<li>closer to home means more likely to not break down from the stresses of being new to college.
ect... a lot of other reasons but i know at least for my school berkeley accepts a crapload more of people</li>
</ol>
<p>That norcal bias is kinda sad in my case. Well hilarious actually. My school is the SOUTHERNMOST school in ALL OF CALIFORNIA.</p>
<p>I was rejected by UCLA and accepted at Cal back in 2005. I'm SURE there must be some sort of scheming between the two schools...check this out:</p>
<p>From my school (in San Diego), our top five students were accepted/rejected as follows:</p>
<h1>1 in class: Accepted at UCLA, rejected by Cal</h1>
<h1>2 in class: Rejected by UCLA, accepted at Cal</h1>
<h1>3 in class: Rejected by UCLA, accepted at Cal</h1>
<h1>4 in class: Accepted at UCLA, rejected by Cal</h1>
<h1>5 in class (me): Rejected by UCLA, accepted at Cal</h1>
<p>no one in my class was accepted by both. how weird is that? (keep in mind, this was in 2005)</p>
<p>I'm from SoCal and we got rougly equal number of Cal and LA admissions last year. In the end more IB kids picked Cal and more AP kids picked LA. That was the trend at my HS over the last five years</p>
<p>We had plenty of people get both.</p>
<p>If that is true it would really upset me, because I am a NorCal kid and I got accepted at UCLA but really want to go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>uh, yeah, it happened to me, and so cal person here. I kinda thought the UCs made more $$ by getting so cal to go to nor cal and the other way around. Tuition's cheap in comparison to the dorms, which is where I think they make all their money.</p>
<p>The idea that you only get one or the other is just coincidence. It is BS that they pick based off of geography</p>
<p>I believe something is going on here. Everyone from my sons school (central Calif, an hour and 1/2 from berkeley) usually gets accepted to one or the other, almost always Berkeley, but not both!! We will soon see. My son got into UCLA. I never thought of this, but it could be a housing factor.</p>
<p>AAAAA so if you GET INTO UCLA its a very bad sign?!!!!! coz i wanna go to berkeley!!!!my major is bio and BUSINESS!!</p>
<p>All that is going on is that UCLA and Cal have slightly different foci. The bias argument makes no sense. Three UCs are in NorCal (Cal, Davis, SC); five are in SoCal (LA, SD, Irvine, SB, Riverside)</p>
<p>I believe the conditional probability of Cal admission given UCLA acceptance is much higher than that given UCLA rejection.</p>
<p>Don't fool yourself.</p>
<p>now im nervous because i got into ucla but want to go really bad to berkeley... and i live in socal... last year only the valedictorian got into both berkeley and ucla... other people only got accepted to either one.. </p>
<p>im crossing my fingers...</p>
<p>they care about more than just grades^</p>