Should I apply to all the UC's?

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<p>My first choice is UCSB. I figured I'd apply to all (or most) of the UC schools, since it's the same application, just to see if where I'd get in. Is this an alright idea? Because I was thinking maybe they'd be like "Well, we'll give her Riverside, Davis, and Merced... K that's enough, next applicant," where if I only applied to UCSB they would let me in there. Do you think it might work this way?
Basically, if UCSB is the only one I really want to go to, could applying to the others hurt my chances?</p>

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<p>You DO know you pay an app fee for each campus applied to, right?</p>

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<p>We visited many UCs this spring and summer. They told us that the apps are forwarded to each campus and evaluated separately. Each campus don’t even evaluate the apps the same way. The app fee is per campus.</p>

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<p>Plus, you need to pay to send your scores to each campus as well.</p>

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<p>Ohh ya I knew there was another reason why I didn’t wanna apply to them all… anyways ya I had already decided to apply to only 4, but I still wanted to see if that affected my getting into my first choice.</p>

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<p>The campuses don’t know what other campuses you applied to, so no.</p>

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<p>does anyone really want to go to merced?</p>

<p>anyways…it won’t hurt your chances.</p>

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<p>FWIW: If you apply to UCSB and the couple of others you would really want to attend, are rejected but are UC eligible you will get automatic acceptance to UCR and UCM without having to pay additional ap fees.</p>

<p>It happened to my D last year</p>

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<p>Hi, first name here. Wish I had seen the posts earlier. My son applied for 8 UCs just in case. It’s a big chunk of money and now I feel regretted thinking it may ruin his chance at the good ones because the receipt I got after I paid listing all the UCs he applied. Does anyone here know whether each UC can also see the listing of all the campuses he applied? What do you think?</p>

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<p>No, the UCs do not see what other UCs he applied to, and each campus makes its own admissions decisions without regard to whether other campuses have rejected or accepted him. Don’t worry! (And good luck to your son!)</p>