<p>Wow, graduate, you are my idol: You worked for a major law firm on the East Coast.</p>
<p>And I guess my dad's advice was correct. I was considering going to UCLA but he told me Berkeley's reputation is far better and made me go to Cal.</p>
<p>I'd say if you also get free drinks with your Baja Fresh tacos, then go with the UCLA Regents'.</p>
<p>Come on, free parking and housing at UCLA? You don't need a car at Cal, and housing is guaranteed for freshmen. You will find that living in a house near campus is the better/cheaper arrangement after that, and Berkeley is gorgeous city with hundreds of landmark older homes and a fantastic setting in half the city (bay views, wooded streets). The best food on the continent and gorgeous NorCal surroundings in addition to SF.</p>
<p>Regent's get priority on the parking lotto at UCLA and guaranteed housing for 4 years. It's not free, at least that's not the way it was explained to me.</p>
<p>wow graduated...your experiences attest to the fact that CAL's prestige is just superior to LA's....I've already chosen berkeley over LA. I even visited LA 2 days ago for the Regents scholar reception...and stayed overnight...compared to Berk campus....UCLA is at another level...but berkeley is fine and I loved it there too. And I even asked some of the students there..who got into both UCLA and berk...and they told me go to berk since im closer to berk...that's how they made their decisions...i see their point.</p>
<p>I deleted this post because I noticed the previous post.</p>
<p>good i was just about to correct you.</p>
<p>uh, prestige is not important at all when applying to medical school.</p>
<p>Hence I picked UCLA over UCB.</p>
<p>I know more UCLA rejects who go to Cal than Cal rejects who go to UCLA from my high school. This is a small sample taken from a large population but many other high schools have similar stories. Just walk around UCLA and ask how many of the students were accepted to Cal. Cal might be more prestigious, but "my son (cousin, friend, relative, whatever) went to UCLA but didn't get into Berkeley" is not the typical case.</p>
<p>more people who are going to UCB this year from my school did not get into UCLA.</p>
<p>Look, it is a more typical case than the other way around, and you are right, your sample is small. Cross enrollment statistics disagree with you.</p>
<p>Where are the cross enrollment statistics? I can't find them, I'm interested.</p>
<p>Trying to find some. The admissions offices are closed or I would call each. This might have to take until Monday.</p>
<p>Fall 2004 Yield Rates</p>
<p>UCLA 4257/9949 = 43% UC Berkeley 3671/9024 = 41%</p>
<p>In comparison, UCSD's yield rate was 22% for the same year almost half of UCLA's or Cal's yield rate.
<a href="http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sri...ll/ffapadac.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sri...ll/ffapadac.pdf</a></p>
<p>Indeed. However, yield rates only do so much for us here. Also, keep in mind that thousands more apply to LA yearly (meaning the acceptance rate would be much higher if it received the number of apps Berkeley does yearly).</p>
<p>Well, sure, Drab, but UCLA also has many more available admissions slots. UCLA is the most populous of all of the UC's.</p>
<p>Indeed, but isn't it also important to keep in mind that they have about 7,000 more applicants a year?</p>
<p>Were you aware that one reason Berkeley is the size it is now is that the faculty and people a while ago didn't want UCLA to be bigger than Berkeley? I was told by a Berkeley historian/officla that is one reason why they allowed it grow. How big is UCLA anyway?</p>
<p>in my eyes, the decision between UCLA and cal was so hard it almost drove me crazy. If one school had offered such a decisive advantage, which the regent scholarship definitely does, i wouldve chosen UCLA in a heartbeat. alas, i did not get regents to either, only 1.7k per year to UCLA, therefore i have chosen cal.</p>
<p>I was in your same situation. I had UCLA Regents PLUS its Alumni Scholarship (not much money, $6000 over four years; but plenty of perks), and all I had from Cal was the Alumni Scholarship (i didn't even get a Regents invite)...and yet I came to Cal...</p>
<p>Granted, I lived in Westwood and couldn't stand the idea of going to UCLA for four years. But it also was that I felt Cal had an overall more intellectual environment than UCLA, Cal is more prestigious than UCLA, Cal had more of a personality...yeah.</p>
<p>DRab, UCLA received 6415 more applications than Cal in 2004, however the % of spots is pretty equal.</p>
<p>Cal 3671 (ppl enrolled)/36784 (applications) = 10%
UCLA 4257 (ppl enrolled)/43199 (applications) = 9.9%</p>
<p>Therefore, your argument that UCLA is easier to get into because it has more applications is flawed.</p>