<p>“I personally believe that UCLA’s regents is MUCH more selective. For one, they invite the top 1.5% of applicants (750-800 students) for freshmen class to apply for the scholarship in the first place. From there they pick the top 100 and give them a really nice $5.5K honorary award in addition to preferential housing, preferential course enrollment which is what I’m really hoping Berkeley adopts sometime when I’m still at Berkeley because getting to the classes you want is really hard with so many students and so many budget cuts. This is most people’s complaint about Berkeley. UCLA also offers preferential parking, I have heard a rumor that Regents scholars get preferential parking as well but I cannot confirm this.”</p>
<p>Hm, yeah this may be true. I guess I don’t know how many people got one, but not the other, but I got both back in the day. </p>
<p>Caffeine – if you try two majors in the same college [L&S is broad! anywhere from English to math and physics…] you’ll likely have no issues doing it at Berkeley. We have a great English department, and one of my good friends here loves it. However, of course if you’d like a smaller school [e.g. an LAC] that’s very much legitimate. Large schools aren’t for everyone.</p>