<p>I've heard from a friend that UCLA and UCB trade off students. UCLA takes the "better" science student and UCB takes the "better" humanities student. Is there any truth to this because I'm a science major and I don't want this to happen to me.</p>
<p>lol, your friend is hilarious.</p>
<p>I've never heard anything to support this idea, and the schools don't trade info on who they're admitting, so it would be impossible.</p>
<p>I wish it was like that though, since Cal is my first choice and I'm applying for Philosophy.</p>
<p>This is certainly an interesting variation on the "You either get into Berkeley or UCLA" admissions rumor.</p>
<p>I hear that rumor a lot. Is it any way true, just a little?</p>
<p>I highly disbelieve they trade students.</p>
<p>although that will explain how when students apply to UCLA and UCB sometimes they only get accepted to one or another but not both</p>
<p>i know a lot of people that got accepted to both.. im one of them. all those rumors are false!!</p>
<p>There you go then, myth busted!</p>
<p>I personally don't think it's true either because I've known people who got into both. However, a few years ago, my friend's sister was a history or English major and she really wanted to go to UCLA, but UCB supposedly "traded" her with UCLA. Then she went off to Harvard Law School. So, I just wanted to know if something like this happened to anyone else?</p>
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<p>Says who. Some people only get into one; some people get into both.</p>
<p>uh, yeah. UCLA and UCB hold an annual conference with a list of all applicants. for each round, the school picks a person on the list. that person gets the acceptance letter. </p>
<p>are you kidding me? anybody who tells you they trade is talking in their sleep.</p>
<p>How would they even know if you are "better" at either science or humanities? If UCLA had the "better" undergraduate science and engineering* students, then we would definately be ranked higher than Berkeley in every South Campus major counterpart, but we're not! :(</p>
<p>*I'm including engineering because it's closely related.</p>
<p>duckbutt>>i know a lot of people that got accepted to both.. im one of them. all those rumors are false!!</p>
<p>Assuming your claim is true (that you got into both), how do you make a jump from one person getting admission in both to the rumor (that UCLA and UCB share data) being false? There is at least one official datapoint supporting in the direction of the rumor: UC chancellor sent out notes to several students to the effect that they should not freak out. They are being considered by campuses where they did not even apply, but they will still be considered by their original campus.</p>
<p>It is still one UC system. So sharing of data/some co-operative biasing/profiling of students does happen. It is the extent that is being discussed here.</p>
<p>I was also accepted to both... so i don't believe the rumor..</p>
<p>..they are different schools that decide admissions separately.</p>
<p>haha it would be so funny if they actually had that, like elementary school kids picking teams, each school gets 1 kid from the application pool each round :D</p>
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<p>It's kind of my belief that both these schools admit plenty of people into majors that they can't really handle. And getting into science majors is a lot easier than doing well at them. If you really genuinely are sharp enough to handle the science major, and you have a good GPA (UCs emphasize raw grades a bunch), you should get into both, unless you're very unlucky. I'd not worry about things like this.</p>
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haha it would be so funny if they actually had that, like elementary school kids picking teams, each school gets 1 kid from the application pool each round
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<p>And they could post the order of the picks too. That would be pretty awesome.</p>
<p>the number 1 pick for the 2010 Cal/UCLA draft is..... :D</p>
<p>It'd be funny if they did a draft on demographics</p>
<p>like </p>
<p>Alright out of the people living in San Bernardino</p>
<p>lol</p>