<p>I've heard that many UCLA rejects are accepted to CAL, but are many UCLA acceptees rejected from UCLA? I remember hearing someone say that to increase the yield rate for the UCs, many students are only accepted to either UCLA or Cal. Anyone know about this?</p>
<p>This rumor has never officially been proven true. In my high school for instance, almost every student who was accepted to Cal was also accepted to UCLA.</p>
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<p>I got into UCLA and was rejected from Cal, therefore it happens.</p>
<p>hah! I meant do many people accepted at UCLA get rejected from CAL:)</p>
<p>Yep this happens all of the time, I got offered that ■■■■■■■■ UC Merced guaranteed transfer to UCB instead of straight acceptance to UCB and got into UCLA. But, I did put undeclared engineering at UCB and actually put a major at UCLA so I don’t know how much that affected it</p>
<p>I have yet to meet someone that was accepted to UCLA that was also rejected from UCLA. But I was accepted to UCLA, and rejected from Cal.</p>
<p>I just checked the admission rates of both CAL and UCLA from last year, and apparently 7000 more applicants applied to UCLA and not CAL, which explains why UCLA’s admission rate is like 5-6% lower than CAL. Anyone know why so many more people apply to UCLA and not CAL?</p>
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<p>Because UCLA is in the best location and it’s extremely balanced in terms of academia, social life, etc (the whole college experience), making it the most popular school in the country.</p>
<p>^ Then why do most people choose Cal and not UCLA when given the option?</p>
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Hmm…I’m not sure where you pulled this information from. UCLA does have more undergraduates than Berkeley does. A lot of my friends were both accepted to UCLA and UCB but chose UCLA for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>Also, it also depends on which major you’re focusing on. For instance, most students would choose UCB over UCLA for engineering, but that sub-group only makes up a small percentage of the whole freshmen class.</p>
<p>I think there’s a misconception that it’s a lot harder to get into Cal than UCLA, so UCLA gets a certain amount more applications from people that have no shot at all.</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of our applicants never considered Cal for a second. They may find the school intimidating. While there is a sect of UCLA students that want to go to Cal or something better, there is also a big sect of students who just feel fortunate being admitted to UCLA.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people who apply to both UCLA and Cal are people who apply to a gazillion colleges to ensure they go to the university with the highest rank. A lot of Cal students like to spam applications. For many students UCLA and below, they kept there applications simple and stop while they’re ahead.</p>
<p>Largely, the stats are biased given the nature of top students. A lot of UCLA students do not prefer Cal to the point they would’t apply to the school.</p>
<p>When did UCLA start to have lower accept rates than UCB? I can’t confirm if this was indeed true, but a few long time CA residents who are in their 50s now, were very surprised to hear that UCLA is more ‘selective’ than UCB. ‘Back in their day’, UCLA was a breeze to get into but UCB was not so.</p>
<p>Back in the day, Berkeley was’t exactly prestigious either. But the phenomenon of UCLA having a lower admit rate than Berkeley began just last year.</p>
<p>Before then, Berkeley didn’t calculate its Spring admits into its admissions rate. UCLA admitted .1% more often than Berkeley. Last year, Berkeley began including Spring admits in its stat for some reason. I don’t know why.</p>
<p>Maybe something changed. A Berkeley student will have to clarify for me. Did Berkeley always offer Spring admissions to some Fall applicants? Did you guys discontinue the Spring application? </p>
<p>Either way, Spring admissions had been an easy backdoor way to get into Berkeley. (For those willing to delay their education a semester, of course.) There’s no backdoor way into UCLA… except being drafted into a sports team or CC. ><</p>
<p>Transferring from CC is a backdoor</p>
<p>^^ The amount of students that both CAL and UCLA admitted were pretty much the same; around 12000 students for UCLA and 12,900 for CAL. The 13000 for CAL included about 2500 spring admits but for UCLA the 12000 were all fall admits. </p>
<p>I’m not sure about using spring admits in the past in CAL’s admission rate. But last year the admission rate was MUCH lower for UCLA ( eventhough they both accepted around the same number of people 12000-13000) because around 7,000 more had applied to UCLA than CAL. </p>
<p>UCLA was the most applied to college last year and that’s the reaon it had a lower admit rate.</p>
<p>I also don’t understand why </p>
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<p>From what I’ve read, people don’t choose to be a spring admit. When you get your letter of acceptance you are either a fall admit, spring admit, rejected, or waitlisted for this year. The spring admits were on the borderline but CAL still decided to accept them. People don’t choose to be spring admits so its not like its easier to get into CAL that way.</p>
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It was a sudden leap. Berkeley jumped 5% when they began including Spring Admissions into their admit rate. I’m surprised people on this board are so unfamiliar with this decision.</p>
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Uh… we’ve been the most applied to college for MANY consecutive years now, not just last year. This goes all the way back to the time when we were far less prestigious than Berkeley.</p>
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Then Cal decided to remove the Spring admissions application. ‘Back in the day’, which is only two years ago, you had to file a separate application to be considered for Spring semester admission. I don’t know who ever completed those, considering they were out of sync with the ordinary college application season.</p>
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I said that. Why doesn’t anyone ever read my posts correctly?</p>
<p>Okay, I’m not too familiar with admission to UCLA or CAL before last year so I don’t really know what changed before then, but thanks for clarifying.</p>