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according to their website, and I dont know if this is even true, but they only accept 10% from out of state
which is RIDIC right?!?
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It's 10% for OOS transfers. For freshman OOS, it's probably under 20% (last year, OOS was 20% and and overall the admit rate was 23%--this year that dropped to 21% or so, so I assume that the OOS admit rate did too). Keep in mind that the OOS pool tends to be more self selective (Berkeley is public and they could go for their own public schools, Berkeley costs as much as a private for OOSers, they probably won't get in, and if they do they probably won't get much aid--this discourages a great many applicants; not to mention Berkeley's requirements for eligibility--especially the a-g course requirements--also bar many OOS students from applying).
I'd say getting into Berkeley OOS is like getting into some of the "lower" Ivies--Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc. It can be very much a crapshoot.