<p>I’ve heard of people igniting price wars between two schools (ie “school a is offering me 20k, can you guys beat that?”) so that they can get the best deal possible, but I was wondering if it would be at all effective for me to threaten to go to UCLA unless Berkeley guarantees my housing as a spring admit…?</p>
<p>Sorry, there’s no way that could possibly work.</p>
<p>Berkeley doesn’t negotiate. If you said that, they would say “fine” and terminate your admission.</p>
<p>This isn’t an asian supermarket (forgive my stereotyping). It wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>Berkeley wouldn’t do that for fall admits, much less spring admits (or transfers, or any other kind of student…)</p>