<p>Horsefeathers! Your chances for Berkeley are your chances for Berkeley: UCLA has nothing to do with that fact.</p>
<p>@football, I have been trippin out all week ever since I talked to this one asian girl who didnt get into ucla but I did. she basically told me that the criteria is: if you get into ucla, its because youre chances at CAL are significantly lower. and vice verca. what. the. hell. </p>
<p>I got into UCLA as a POLI sci major with a 3.65</p>
<p>I’m super nervous. My GPA from my CC is pretty good (3.8), but I had a rough patch at my first college (I’m a nontrad student, and there’s a six-year gap between when I first went to college and when I went back) where I was…not failing, but not making great grades, either, because I was dealing with a ton of harassment. I mentioned that in my personal statement, but. I was admitted to Davis and Santa Cruz, and got waitlisted for UCSD. Berkeley was my first choice, so I’ll definitely not be happy if I get denied.</p>
<p>@deanzatransfer92 Where did your friend hear this? It is (a) easy to stoke the propagation of misinformation, and (b) even easier to simply make stuff up.</p>
<p>Thought this TEDx was pertinent to the admissions process:</p>
<p>[TEDxBlue</a> - Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D - 10/18/09 - YouTube](<a href=“TEDxBlue - Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D - 10/18/09 - YouTube”>TEDxBlue - Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D - 10/18/09 - YouTube)</p>
<p>@football462: I keep hearing the same thing. Does anyone actually have a source for this claim? I got into UCLA as well, and I can’t understand why being a strong applicant for UCLA would somehow make me a weaker applicant for Berkeley. Not to mention, I think my prompts are strong and my E.C.'s are geared towards Berkeley’s liberal vibe. Plus I live in the bay, so Berkeley is a better fit in that sense also. I honestly can’t imagine how I’m a better applicant for UCLA than Berkeley.</p>
<p>the last 6 months were easier than these last 4 days</p>
<p>@ceelyc
<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/files/admissions/12626_5.info_transadm.pdf[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/files/admissions/12626_5.info_transadm.pdf</a> </p>
<p>Cnr has a 22.6% admit rate from last year. Which major did you apply for? I applied for cnr as well under molecular toxicology.</p>
<p>i’ve seen people get admitted to both ucla and berkeley. look at admittance threads of the past and ask people who transferred to berkeley and ucla. however, i’ve also seen about 5 oddballs who were admitted to berkeley but not ucla, and i bet this is where the rumor is coming from.</p>
<p>why would ucla and berkeley play this god-like game of “hey, you should take this kid because i’m gonna reject him” when in the end, both schools are trying to recruit the top talent to compete with the rest of the world (and with each other) and profit off of tuition? what if they play that game and the applicant decides to go to ITT tech instead? admitting as much qualified applicants as possible clearly maximizes the school’s chances of getting paid and becoming more competent.</p>
<p>i believe the two schools’ admissions processes are different; i think ucla places more weight on gpa while berkeley is much more holistic (for engineering at least). i bet those oddballs had something on the application that didn’t quite fit with ucla while it did with berkeley</p>
<p>@aust1nku: Yeah. I’m kind of banking on UCB’s holistic admissions process, myself, since my GPA from my CC is good, but I had a hard time at my first college (not to the point I was flunking out, but my grades could’ve been better—there was a lot of awful stuff going on that made it basically impossible to focus on my studies). I wrote a pretty good personal statement, so…I’m hoping I get in. It’s my No. 1 choice, so…I’ll be really disappointed if I don’t get in. </p>
<p>And yes, I’ve heard that the other UCs, including UCLA, are more focused on students’ GPAs and test scores than on holistic admissions, unlike UCB. UCB’s admissions are a bit more like those of a private college.</p>
<p>@saveyourserpent</p>
<p>those turn-around-for-the-better or whatever they’re called type of stories are always good. i hope you have good news on friday.</p>
<p>you can actually find out which UCs don’t even look at the personal statement. it’s somewhere at universityofcalifornia.edu under the counselors page.</p>
<p>…and one more thing: if ucla and berkeley really were doing such a thing behind closed doors, it would obviously take multiple personnel at both campuses to sift through all the eligible applicants and “trade” them. i would hope that there would be at least one good samaritan working at admissions who would spoil the conspiracy.</p>
<p>come on, if we’re all educated and competent enough to apply to ucla and berkeley, two of the finest universities in the world, then people would expect us to be smart enough to discount conspiracy theories. let’s be rational and not add any more to the stress.</p>
<p>@JonnyL91 I’m applying for a “Society and the Environment” major. My GPA is kind of iffy (3.6) but I have strong, relevant ecs. Was kind of hoping for a higher acceptance rate since it seemed like barely anyone was applying to it hehe.</p>
<p>OH WAIT! my major has a 43% :)!</p>
<p>What’s the difference between the 22.6% rate and the 43% rate?</p>
<p>I applied for an Interdisciplinary Studies major. The admit rate for Undergraduate & Interdisciplinary Studies is 37%, which means I…might have a shot? Since my major’s not tremendously popular, it’s…not as though I’m applying to PSYCH or something.</p>
<p>@ceelyc the 22.6% is probably the overall acceptance rate for the college which includes all applicants for the majors in cnr. The 43% is probably the acceptance rate of your major.</p>
<p>4 Days!!! Good luck everyone!!!</p>
<p>So the average, right? It doesn’t work out to be the average though. Hm.</p>
<p>HA nevermind! I get it. Definitely just took stats too. Sorry.</p>