<p>I got rejected from all the California schools I applied (Berkeley, UCLA, Claremont McKenna), but accepted at UChicago and Northwestern. I was joking about myself being the "All California Reject." But does anybody have idea why is this happening?</p>
<p>God wants you to go to a school where you'll be pale and cold? </p>
<p>I joke. Haha. </p>
<p>I'm sure you were a qualified candidate, but hey, if a California college is where you wanna go, you can always transfer.</p>
<p>they all conspired not to apply you and only you!</p>
<p>Yes, I am too speculating on a conspiracy by the filthy Californians... JKJK.</p>
<p>are you an east-coast asian? i hear cali schools dont take too many of those cuz they got enough asians from ca applying...</p>
<p>dude northwestern is HELLA good...stop trippin</p>
<p>
[quote]
are you an east-coast asian?
[/quote]
No. I am a Southern small town Asian. And a wannabe redneck. Sike on that one.</p>
<p>applying as on OOS student to the 2 top rated UC's is like applying to HYP- your chances of acceptance are less than 15%. Congrats on Chicago and NW.</p>
<p>well since the acceptance rate at LA and Berkeley this year were ~ 8% your chances would be much less than 15%, but thats speaking strictly statistically, of course.</p>
<p>congrats! i'm jealous, because i got waitlisted by both chicago and NU, but accepted at all the cali schools.
[yes, i am a CA asian]</p>
<p>LA and Berk only had an 8% acceptance rate? Wow.</p>
<p>
[quote]
applying as on OOS student to the 2 top rated UC's is like applying to HYP- your chances of acceptance are less than 15%. Congrats on Chicago and NW.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>I was kind of confused on that. The Berkeley website says differently:
<a href="http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp%5B/url%5D">http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp</a></p>
<p>"Nonresidents
Applied 4703
Admitted 949
%Admitted 20%"</p>
<p>This is based on Fall 2007 data.</p>
<p>Its not 8% acceptance. That 8% is the amount of applicants MATRICULATING. And yes, UCLA and Berkeley OOS is quite hard to get into, but Northwestern is a great school.</p>
<p>"This is based on Fall 2007 data."
It was worse this year.</p>
<p>^ how much worse?</p>
<p>I was told by a long time private college counselor who has contacts at UCB that they admitted a considerably smaller % of OOS than LY, in large part because of the huge # of instate students applying TY. She mentined that she heard 15%.</p>
<p>That's not true, UCLA had a 23.3% acceptance rate this year, it said so on the admissions packet. Berkeley, I do not know, but I'm sure it wasn't below 20%.</p>
<p>And the UC's are race-blind, to whoever thought it was about east-coast Asians.</p>