<p>"Errrr...Flagship only ='s Cal.
Second tier is UCLA and UCSD."</p>
<p>-This is incorrect. Cal is the flagship, but Cal, UCLA, UCSD compose the top tier of the UC system. </p>
<p>Top Tier:
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD</p>
<p>Second Tier:
UCI
UCSB
UCD</p>
<p>Third Tier:
UCSC
UCR
UCM</p>
<p>Holy snap, people actually took serious what I said.</p>
<p>I'm going to refrain from any form of sarcasm on CC ever.</p>
<p>Damn discussion board ambiguity... :mad:</p>
<p>"This is incorrect. Cal is the flagship, but Cal, UCLA, UCSD compose the top tier of the UC system."</p>
<p>...Yeah. We all know that. But when you factor in "flagship," you're really creating four tier levels, and Cal takes the top. Of course UCLA and UCSD would be in the same tier as Cal if you didn't say "flagship" because there can only be one.</p>
<p>Cardinal, I would have agreed that UCSD was a "top tier" until they dropped so much in rankings this year. Something is not right in SD. And while most in lower ranking schools think rankings are stupid, remember that everything in life is "ranked." Yesterday I bought the #1 toothpaste... :)</p>
<p>Back on topic, I applied to 6 UC's, all but Merced, Riverside and Davis and was accepted to all 6.
And it is true your UC Application lets each campus know where else you have applied. What difference does it make?</p>
<p>"This is incorrect. Cal is the flagship, but Cal, UCLA, UCSD compose the top tier of the UC system."</p>
<p>What are you basing that on? You make it sound like the UC defines itself by tiers.</p>
<p>Where did you come across the information that the lower tiers won't accept you because you use them as a safety? Cuz I find that hard to believe. All the schools offer different majors, and they know that. I am going to UCSD, but SC was above Cal because uh, they didn't have my major. </p>
<p>I haven't heard of anyone who was rejected from Santa Cruz because they also applied to LA, SD and Cal. It is more likely that they got rejected form a lower school because they didn't have something that would have given them substantial points in the colleges individual point system.</p>
<p>In some rare cases, it happens, rdw. I think it's most common when the admissions officer doesn't think the applicant took the application seriously, for example, talking about how great some other school is in an essay.</p>
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<p>Yep. But does this make it not true that sometimes, a person is rejected for other reasons?</p>