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<p>No UC school is “easy to get in to” by any standard, and graduate admissions are a completely different animal. Acceptance rates of 5% or less are the norm.</p>
<p>Also, USF doesn’t have a Ph.D program in chemistry. Are you referring to UCSF? Because “UCSF to Caltech” is not a really wide range of schools at all - those are two highly selective and competitive programs.</p>