<p>Another year as the most selective UC. Any thoughts? </p>
<p>UCLA</a> receives most freshman applications of any U.S. public college - latimes.com</p>
<p>It depends how you define “most selective.” If you base it solely off of acceptance rate, sure, UCLA is more selective than Berkeley. But in actuality, I think Berkeley still attracts more top students, is more difficult to get into, has a stronger student body overall, etc. I think Berkeley experiences much more self-selection in the admissions process than UCLA. So, I would say Berkeley is still the most selective UC.</p>
<p>Wow. With that many applicants how important are essays? Can’t imagine them all being read.</p>
<p>Maybe people just find SoCal more attractive…even if Berkeley is more prestigious.</p>
<p>Clearly someone here is a Berkeley fan. Anyways, I feel more special now getting in UCLA; *Also got into Cal but bleh.</p>
<p>hakuex: I’m assuming that was directed towards me. I’m actually a “fan” of both schools, but I have no connection to either. Just making a point since it is misleading to state that UCLA is more selective. It’s acceptance rate is lower, but that doesn’t mean it is more difficult to get into. Berkeley is still the most selective UC. Sure, UCLA may dethrone Berkley someday (maybe soon) in selectivity, but I don’t think it has quite yet. </p>
<p>By the OP’s measure, if you just look at acceptance rates, Florida Memorial University is “more selective” than Penn, Caltech, Duke, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Northwestern, Georgetown, JHU, Rice, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, and so on… you get the point. Just showing that lower acceptance rate does not equate to more selective.</p>
<p>UCLA pushes people who are not qualified to apply. As of recently I’ve found that Cal and UCLA are pretty much on equal footing academically. UCLA people might be more social but that doesn’t mean they are dumber.</p>
<p>Last year, my son got into UCLA, from OOS, but got rejected by Berkeley and Pomona.</p>
<p>UCLA and Berkeley have virtually identical student bodies with a slight edge for Berkeley. Given that it has a lower aeroplane rate, I’d say it is more selective.</p>
<p>Dreams, I was using selective as a synonymy for acceptance rate so your comments were warranted, but my intentions were misunderstood. Also, can you please find me a direct source besides US News that has Florida Memorial’s admit rate at ~11% because everywhere else I looked at (even simply googling it) gave me ~33%.</p>
<p>UCLA’s rate is not surprising at all but WTH @ UCSC, UCR and UCM??? When I was a senior UCSC and UCR were basically guarantees…they are so selective now…and UCM had a 90% acceptance rate last I checked…so grateful I was born like 3 years earlier otherwise I probably wouldn’t be going to college…</p>
<p>Poor UCI though…I remember when we became the third most selective campus last year people were all boastful like “take that SD!” and whatnot…it got brought up a lot on the campus…admissions probably learned their lesson when they massively under-enrolled and had to take all the waitlist people/appeals.</p>
<p>UCLA food>>>Berkley’s (On and off campus). If you aren’t eating well, you ain’t living well.</p>