<p>This is from Ms. Sun's blog:</p>
<p>"UCLA once again was the hardest UC campus to crack for Californians, with only 17.7% of them offered entrance at the Westwood school. Next came UC Berkeley, 22.7%; San Diego, 32.1%; Irvine, 33.6%; Santa Barbara, 41%; Davis, 44.5%; Riverside and Santa Cruz, both 61.6%; and Merced, 76.5%"</p>
<p>Maybe UCSB will move up in rankings again.</p>
<p>I wonder why Irvine’s acceptance rate was so low?</p>
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<p>Do you have the full numbers? Maybe some of the higher percentage schools had a smaller number of applicants than those with lower admit rates?</p>
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<p>Here is the link to the admissions table:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2012/fall_2012_admissions_table2.pdf</a></p>
<p>Well, there’s no relationship between admittance rate and how good the school is.</p>
<p>The way I see it, the only reason UCLA’s admittance rate is so low is because people generally see Cal as the top within the UC system; as a result, less people apply there because they feel like they have no shot. People apply to UCLA because it’s seen as second in the system; they feel they have more of a shot of getting into LA than into Cal. (The real ranking between Cal and UCLA is virtually negligible).</p>
<p>As such, you really can’t state that because SB’s admittance rate was 4% lower than Davis’s that SB is getting better than Davis - that’s just not good evidence. If admittance rates determined how good the school was, than California State University: East Bay should be one hell of a good school, as [U.S</a> News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/cal-state-east-bay-1138/applying"]U.S”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/cal-state-east-bay-1138/applying) states that it has an acceptance rate of 22%.</p>
<p>I definitely see Santa Barbara as a rising star within the UC system, though. Whether it’s incorrect party school reputation continues to plague it, only time will tell. It’s academics, as reported by the [url="<a href="https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/compare-colleges"]Collegeboard[/url">https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/compare-colleges"]Collegeboard[/url</a>] (you’ll have to do some work on your own to compare the two), are just about the same; however, Santa Barbara is known often for its great Engineering program, while Davis is often more known for its good Agriculture and Life Sciences programs.</p>
<p>Whether UCSB will rise above UCD in academics, only time will tell.</p>
<p>If you look at the rankings put out ARWU, UCSB surpasses UC Davis by a few places</p>
<p>The education that you receive at any UC is going to be excellent if you make the most of your time there. Some of the UCs are better known than the others, but that does not make them better academically. Also, some UCs have particular areas of academic strength that are more highly regarded than another UC may have.</p>
<p>For example, UCSB has an economics + accounting program, which my daughter will be in starting in the fall 2012, that is outstanding and has the reputation of being every bit as good as USC, UCLA and LMU, and UCSB students are recruited just as heavily here by the large firms as they are at the other schools. I know this for a fact as I know many people at these firms, including the recruiters, who have confirmed UCSB’s reputation.</p>
<p>That is reassuring @rwscpa. My son has been feeling low because his ‘peers’ have been accepted at UCLA/UCB & HYPS and he’s taken some ribbing about his future at a “party school”. Anything that quashes or dilutes that reputation is going to help. USC has struggled with the same image problem, but with deep pockets they are able to buy their way out of it through hiring and generous scholarships.</p>
<p>@Teenmom, your son should feel very proud to have been accepted to UCSB. UCSB will give him every bit of a quality education as any of the other UC undergrad programs. </p>
<p>The party school reputation may always be part of UCSB, but with such high national and world rankings that UCSB has, and an average high school gpa of 3.92 for admmitted incoming freshman, it would be foolish for anyone to dismiss this very high quality academic institution and not take it seriously. </p>
<p>My daughter chose UCSB over USC, UCB, UCD, UCSD, LMU and Pepperdine. These are all very fine colleges for undergrad work. However, she ultimately decided which college to attend based on her basic wants . She wants to be close to the beach and close to our home (we live in Thousand Oaks)and to get a degree in accounting, so this will be perfect for her.</p>