<p>My prediction:
12:30pm - Decisions released
1:30pm - I rush out of my last class to find that I was rejected by Cal
1:35pm - Sprint to the admissions office to DROP MY BERKELEY REQUIREMENT CLASS
1:40pm - Smile :)</p>
<p>woohoo!!!</p>
<p>Take that, MOM!!! her 1st choice is UCB, mine is UCLA :-P</p>
<p>that’s funny…</p>
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<p>Exactly!</p>
<p>I plan to stay up all night, go to class tomorrow, go for an 8 mile run, and then go to sleep. By the time I wake up, the decisions will probably already have been released.</p>
<p>Then I can either:
A. Cry
B. Cry (tears of joy).</p>
<p>what happens when</p>
<p>i get rejected: </p>
<p>12:30: read rejection.
12:32:submit SIR at UCLA with a clear conscience
1:00: steak lunch
2:00: head to UCLA to buy the shirt that won’t leave my back for too many days.
3:00: get on with my life… finally.</p>
<p>i get accepted:</p>
<p>12:30: read acceptance letter.
12:35 - foreseeable future: make the best / worst decision of my life.</p>
<p>^^^
nice… which school are you leaning more towards? (if you get cal tomorow)</p>
<p>pinker will pick berkeley even though he might not admit it to himself right now.</p>
<p>creepy i know this, i know.</p>
<p>You really should pick UCLA, if you go other places in the world it actually carries more prestige than Cal!</p>
<p>We need a countdown thread!</p>
<p>“You really should pick UCLA, if you go other places in the world it actually carries more prestige than Cal!”</p>
<p>Wow, that’s completely inaccurate. I used to live in Korea, and have been to Japan a couple times. In fact, a lot of them were obsessing on trying to transfer to Berkeley from their countries. They all know Berkeley is more prestigious. Everyone I know from the East Coast knows that Berkeley is more prestigious academically as well. It doesn’t really matter anyway because prestige isn’t worth much until graduate school.</p>
<p>forrow your dreams!!</p>
<p>dem bones- it’s actually not completely inaccurate. according to the US news 2009 rankings for the world’s best colleges and universities, UCLA places at 30 while CAL is placed at 36</p>
<p>[World’s</a> Best Colleges and Universities: Top 200 - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2008/11/20/worlds-best-colleges-and-universities-top-200.html]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2008/11/20/worlds-best-colleges-and-universities-top-200.html)</p>
<p>pskate- i’m in your same situation! CAL is my mom’s #1 but UCLA is mine. i am crossing my fingers to get rejected because i wouldn’t go anyway, and i’d feel horrible if i took some student’s spot who really wanted it</p>
<p>Actually I think that this year UCLA had the lowest rates of admission. They cut back on 1,000 students this year</p>
<p>so do you think i’ll find out my appeal responses before the swine flu kills me?</p>
<p>Cutesterlove…</p>
<p>[National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search)</p>
<p>Berkeley #21
UCLA #25</p>
<p>Berkeley is way more consistent in getting programs into top 10 rankings as well.
UCLA just makes up a lot of ground in student to faculty ratio, which isn’t too great at either school.</p>
<p>i thought you were discussing them in terms of a world aspect, so that’s why i linked the world’s top ranked, not the national ranking</p>
<p>Why would a university rank different on the world ranking? On your chart Berkeley beat UCLA in the only scores that might be factored in differently in a world ranking than a national ranking. That’s beside the point anyway. I think Berkeley is generally considered more prestigious.</p>
<p>hahahah don’t ask me that, i didn’t make up that list</p>
<p>Those rankings are inconsistent if you check different sources… too many people rely on US News… UCLA and UCB are excellent schools and it is difficult to compare them…</p>
<p>“U.S. News & World Report’s World’s Best Colleges and Universities rankings based on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings identified these to be the world’s top universities in 2008.”</p>
<p>this is why the world rankings are different from the national rankings.</p>
<p>what happens when</p>
<p>i get rejected:
9:30-10:55 English Class
11:10-12:30 jiu jitsu training
12:30: read rejection.
12:32:submit SIR at UCSD with a clear conscience
1:00: eat some chicken
2:00: go to work
3:00: get on with my life… finally.</p>