<p>okay, this might be stupid, but i dont know anything about the CA school system. can you please rank these in terms of the difficulty it is to get accepted?</p>
<p>(i am out of state, which, i think, will make it quite hard, seeing as the UCs seem to have at least 90% in-state students)
Okay, these are the schools:</p>
<p>USC, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-San Diego</p>
<p>USC seems hard to get into, yet, it is not on the US News Best Colleges list. why is this?</p>
<p>thanks! =)</p>
<p>USC is not in the UC system. Among the UCs, Berkeley and UCLA are the hardest to get into, with UCSD being the least difficult, but still very tough for an OOS. For OOS, USC is probably the easiest to get into.</p>
<p>USC is #30 on the USNews best colleges list.</p>
<p>and it is not a part of the California public university system</p>
<p>In order:
UCB
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
the rest...haha.</p>
<p>G&S likely meant that UC Santa Cruz (not SD= San Diego) is least difficult, but now that honor likely belongs to UC Merced.</p>
<p>i think G&S meant UCSD was the least difficult out of the 4 i listed.</p>
<p>haha, wow, i didnt see USC as #30, my mistake!</p>
<p>USC is easier to get into than UCSD for an OOS?</p>
<p>i highly doubt it. usc's acceptance rate is 27% and ucsd's is around 45%</p>
<p>dancingbear - like they already said, USC is a private university and harder to get into. However, it also accepts far more out-of-state applicants than the UC system (though I don't know the exact acceptance rates for either of them, USC seems to take 1000 out of state undergrads, while most UCs take around 200-300ish max, could be less). </p>
<p>However, friends have told me USC has great facilities, so if you are looking for a California college, you definitely want to consider it! Although UCLA and UCB cost less than USC and usually "rank" better (whatever rankings mean...), USC rates well for taking care of their students and having better dorms and such. Just some things you might want to consider.</p>
<p>bob - I'm not sure if your ranking is totally dead on. While UCLA, UCB, and UCSD are probably the top 3 UCs, Davis, Irvine, and Santa Barbara are more lumped together. I've heard some consider Davis and Irvine to be better than Santa Barbara, but I guess it really depends on the department. UC Irvine seems to be very good but very underrated...Santa Cruz is quite good too, but not very prestigious and it accepts far more than the others. Riverside probably brings up the bottom, but really, all of the UCs are high quality, and are ranked in the top 100 National Universities for US News & World Report.</p>
<p>I only know this because as a soon to be college applicant from California, I've been looking through info about the different UCs. I don't know how accurate what I said is, but this is what I've come to understand after looking into these places...so, that's my thoughts/info on the matter. :)</p>
<p>thank you guys!</p>
<p>i think i will look into USC and UCSD, though i might get rejected from both. =(, i guess it doesnt hurt to try! oh why couldnt i live in californiaaa...</p>
<p>"USC is easier to get into than UCSD for an OOS?"</p>
<p>I would think its close, but because UCSD is meant to serve California students and USC makes no distiction, I'd say it's probably harder to get into UCSD as an OOS student.</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]UCB
[</em>]UCLA
[<em>]USC
[</em>]UCSD
[/ol]</p>
<p>^^I agree w/ flopsy</p>
<p>I disagree.......</p>
<p>out of state:
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
USC</p>
<p>in state:
Berkeley
UCLA
USC
UCSD
*All of these schools are difficult to get into in state and UC's extrememly difficult out of state.</p>
<p>Out of state admission to any of the top tier uc's (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD) is extremely difficult. USC would not likely be as difficult only because it doesn't stride to first and foremost serve the citizens and tax payers of california. Remember acceptance rate can be misleading for USC, do to the average applicant applying. Their computation of SAT score is also quite different from the UC's, inflating USC's numbers.</p>
<p>bobbobbob:
USC's acceptance rate is 27%.
UCSD's is 39%.</p>
<p>Chris:</p>
<p>Since USC literally buys NMSF's with a large tution discount, depending on test scores, 'SC can be a safety for many OOS. USC is still ~70% instate, and, like all privates, they want geographic diversity. Therefore....</p>