Often, I’ve heard that students applying to both UCLA and UC Berkeley aren’t accepted by both universities. Maybe this is a type of yield protection used by these institutions? Do any of you know how far this is true?
(P.S- I’m an international applicant to both these universities, if that makes a difference.)
This is a common rumor I used to believe, but I have had many friends accepted to both LA and Cal. Though it is difficult it is not impossible (think the probability of two independent events, with each one already being low lol). Now that I’m the senior applying to college, I’ve been admitted to Cal and was invited to apply for Regents at UCLA which is basically a likely letter.
UCs do not communicate their admits to each other so no, it isn’t true.
Admission results for international applicants are less predictable.
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The two schools, while using the same general admission procedure and criteria, do admissions readings separately, introducing fuzz potential as different admissions readers evaluate subjectively graded criteria. In addition, some majors or divisions may be more or less impacted at one school versus the other.