Since USC is now more prestigious than UCLA, is UCLA still relevant?

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<p>Each school is very different and they both excel in their specialties. US news uses a weighted scale that heavily favors private universities over public ones. In the end, both are very good schools and both provide extremely solid educations.</p>

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<p>I see UCLA and Berkeley as the same level.
Both schools have around a 20% admit rate. People see Cal as higher ranked, but why? They’re both well known internationally, they’re both UC’s, both schools, have excellent academic reputations, and they’re both really hard to get into. I just don’t see the point in ranking nor comparing these two excellent schools.</p>

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<p>Because Cal has most of its programs in the Top 10, and its Engineering programs are among the best in the world. Cal also has more qualified applicants than UCLA so the admit rate for UCLA is kind of inflated. This is coming from a Cal Engineering reject :(</p>

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<p>in all honesty it depends on your discipline … USC is better at this and UCLA is better in that. Both schools are wonderful schools although USC may have perks being it that its a private school. Yes many spoiled children at USC but thanks to them many of us get a full ride. USC has risen ranks TREMENDOUSLY not saying it outranks UCLA or CAL but I have close friends in CAL and UCLA and we all love each others schools … Stanford … now STANFORD IS ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL. Most see it as Cal Vs Stanford (North Rivalry) USC Vs UCLA (South Rivalry) both public vs private although usc and ucla are similarly ranked … stanford blows cal out of the water. BTW in korea USC is considered very prestigious too just as much as UCLA. USC is also very well connected with china and many parts of Asia. All in all both schools are good … its trolls like OP that give us trojans a bad name …</p>

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<p>Ucla > usc</p>

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<p>Usc > ucla</p>

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<p>Both are great schools, and yes UCLA is still relevant.</p>

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<p>Just curious, USC’s admit rate was just reported at 17.8 percent. What is UCLA’s admit rate?</p>

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<p>Total admit rate was 18.2% for Freshman. But this includes a very large admit rate for international students (27.8%) so that UCLA can earn money from their OOS tuition.</p>

<p>c.f.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/Frosh_Prof14.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>At this level, I mean, who really cares? Does it really matter if Harvard had a 5.23% admit rate while Stanford had a 5.06% admit rate? (completely making these figures up, but the actual figures are pretty close to these amounts IIRC.)</p>