<p>Just wondering where else all the UC Berkeley students were admitted as they decided where to attend. The UC admission process is enough different from Brand X college admission processes that applying both to Cal and to out of state colleges must have been quite an organizational challenge. How many non-Californians had offers of admission from in-state colleges but still chose Cal?</p>
<p>"The UC admission process is enough different from Brand X college admission processes that applying both to Cal and to out of state colleges must have been quite an organizational challenge."</p>
<p>You get to apply up to 9 colleges, including Cal, UCLA, and 4 other top 45 colleges with one application, which requires nothing like recommendations besides two essays equaling 1000 words. It's significantly easier than applying to private colleges, even ones that accept the Common Application.</p>
<p>Turned down Michigan Honors Program, UCLA, and UCSD. Struggled between picking UM and Cal because of the Honors Program, but then I saw the tuition (oh em gee doubleyou tee eff) and the weather ("We love it here!" "Um.....have you ever heard of a little place called California?").</p>
<p>Applied to a bunch of private schools as well, didn't get accepted to any; got waitlisted at a few (Cornell, WUSTL, Pomona).</p>
<p>turned down UCLA honors, UCSD, UCD...but it was for Cal so its worth it:]</p>
<p>I turned down NYU, UCLA, a full presidential scholarship at CSULB, USC, UCI, UCSD, UC Davis, and CSU Sacramento.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Brown, then rejected during their 2nd round.</p>
<p>Also, I was waitlisted by Stanford, and of course, everybody in the list was rejected.</p>
<p>I was rejected by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, and Colgate.</p>
<p>I turned down the University of Chicago, UCLA honors, UCD regents, and a few lesser known schools with decent scholarships. I had also applied to a bunch of the elite privates like Harvard, Yale, etc. Got waitlisted at Harvard and then rejected at the rest. Honestly, the University of Chicago was my favorite school of the bunch anyways. But the price differential was so huge that I figured I would be happier going to Cal and having money left over for graduate/professional school.</p>
<p>Ucla Ucsd Ucd</p>
<p>ucla ucsd ucd</p>
<p>nhsharvard: everyone on stanford's wait list was rejected? why?</p>
<p>I'm guessing that they try to keep the class size small and their admission yield is high.</p>
<p>I would have been laughing, if I was accepted into Stanford. The, I would have the Stanford v. Cal dilemma.</p>
<p>Stanford vs. Cal - honestly, Berkeley can't compete. Leaving aside the prestige of Stanford, it doesn't charge families earning less than $100,000 tuition.</p>
<p>Ucla, Ucsd, Ucd, Ucsb</p>
<p>Yes, but that still leaves room & board which, at a school like stanford, you pretty much have to take for all 4 years (good luck finding housing in Palo Alto that a college student can afford). And they don't waive room and board unless your reported income is under $60k. Last year, room and board per year was $11k, and that's probably gone up. So for most people whose family incomes are between $60k and $100k, the costs are about comparable (after including rent, food, personal expenses).</p>
<p>Room and board per year was $11k at Stanford? That's less than at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant to compare going to Stanford without tuition but with room and board vs. going to Berkeley with in-state tuition but without living in the Res Halls at all (which is entirely possible, whereas going to Stanford without living in the dorms is incredibly difficult).</p>
<p>Any non-Californian students who turned down an in-state honors program for Cal out-of-state?</p>
<p>I turned down UCLA and UCSD, as Cal offered me a full scholarship to attend that I don't think I even qualified for financially after hearing others' EFCs; it was a no brainer. I'd be stupid not to take it. UCLA and UCSD did not offer anything similar.</p>
<p>UC San Diego, Davis, Santa Barbara, Irvine; USC, Pepperdine, Stanfurd, and Princeton.</p>
<p>Northwestern (no financial help), UCLA Honors, Bucknell (with a small scholarship), UCD, UCSD... Go Bears!!</p>
<p>calrule,</p>
<p>did you really get into stanford and princeton?</p>