<p>So I was talking to my friend who goes to UCLA today and she was under the impression that UCSD was harder to get into than USC. I thought otherwise. I think that USC a little harder. So who is right? I hope they are about the same beacuse i really want to get into USC and have already been excepted to UCSD....im hoping its a good indicator</p>
<p>Not sure, but I heard that UCLA's acceptance rate was really low this year.</p>
<p>I applied to all 3, got rejected from UCLA and got accepted to UCSD (both bioengineering)</p>
<p>let me just restate your first sentence for you:
"so i was talking to my friend who goes to UCLA..."
think your friend might have a little bit of a bias? : )</p>
<p>USC has a 27% acceptance rate.
UCSD has a 42% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Funny that you ask because one of my friends in high school also said that her teacher said that UCSD was also harder to get into than USC. I scrounged for stats on the University of California website (<a href="http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html</a>) and manually calculated acceptance rates. Don't know if it's completely accurate (since I got 22% for UCLA and 20% for UCB wow), but I got 36% for UCSD. USC had a 23% acceptance rate last year (<a href="http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/parent/images/profilefreshman2005.pdf)%5B/url%5D">http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/parent/images/profilefreshman2005.pdf)</a>.</p>
<p>Usc > Ucsd</p>
<p>acceptance rates for 2005:
ucb: 24.5%
ucla: 26.9%
usc: 27%
ucsd: 39%</p>
<p>My bad, 27%</p>
<p>That number is actually rounded from 26.58% (calculate it using the numbers), so USC's admit rate appears to be [url=<a href="http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/04/04/uclas-harder-to-get-into/%5Dlower%5B/url">http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/04/04/uclas-harder-to-get-into/]lower[/url</a>] than UCLA's.</p>