<p>i think if i get into la or cal i will probably be in disbelief… i think with my stats i have like a .01% chance of getting in.</p>
<p>My chances for LA are pretty slim – I haven’t met all of my major’s pre-reqs. They are crazy specific and require an awful lot from you!</p>
<p>I’m expecting a rejection, but one never knows. In high school, UCLA rejected EVERYONE from my school, save one person who seemed an odd pick, whereas Berkeley accepted 10-15 of them.</p>
<p>If getting into UCLA or Berkeley meant sacrificing something, what would you be willing to give up to be accepted?</p>
<p>I’ll start…I would give up my left pinkie :)</p>
<p>I’m expecting an acceptance from UCLA, but not from Berkeley. Actually, “expecting” is the wrong word. I think I’m just ignoring the possibility that I’ll be rejected from any school because I would go insane otherwise.</p>
<p>if i get into LA or CAL i will actually be giving up or postponing moving in with my future husbad. </p>
<p>that is a big deal. i think they should accept me just becuase i am wililng to put my education b4 my love life. </p>
<p>So… i will be giving up getting laid for a solid 1-2 years.</p>
<p>Well, unless I’m mistaken, UCLA and Berkeley both accept about 44% of the transfer applicants in their humanities divisions. That has got to ease some of the anxiety for those of us applying to that division, no? Nearly 50/50 is way better than,say, the 8-30% chance at other divisions.</p>
<p>well i am a social sciences major, so that doesnt help me any. </p>
<p>but, for UCLA the acceptance rate for my major was 60% for 2005</p>
<p>UCLA bases decisions by major right?</p>
<p>60% is relativly high. thats why i always though i had a good chance at UCLA, but now for some reason i think i will get rejected.</p>
<p>If I get into Cal (not particularly concerned about LA, being from SoCal; I want out!), I will happily postpone/cancel my plans to move to London. ^^ Either way, I’d say I have some pretty good options come fall.</p>
<p>Eschatos: Yes, but I’ve dealt with promising odds like that before and lost, so I refuse to hold out much hope. :p</p>
<p>Did anyone from last year’s thread get accepted everywhere? Like to SB, Davis, etc. AND Berkeley and LA? Because I can’t stop thinking about how people have said that getting accepted to all the lower UCs meant that you wouldn’t be accepted to the top ones. That’s probably just another CC urban legend, but I’m 4 for 4 so far and terrified that it means I won’t get into even LA.</p>
<p>does anyone plan on buying anything expensive if they get into say LA or CAL.</p>
<p>i alreayd decided, that since i wil have like absolutley no freaking money once i start school, that if i get in, iam buying a really expensive handbag. … yes i know guys will think this is stupid.</p>
<p>If I get into Cal I’m going to buy a keg…or a laptop, I haven’t decided yet.</p>
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<p>UCLA doesn’t admit applicants by division. Each major has a different rate. And a higher admit rate usually means less applicants, so most people on the forum are probably facing tougher rates.</p>
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- That’s ludicrous.
- I haven’t even heard that before.
- Come on, how can you even give such absolute worthless speculation any weight?</p>
<p>The UCs don’t reject people for being ‘overqualified’ so there cannot be any truth to such a useless piece of ****.</p>
<p>I see your point on that, Maliska. Hope can be a ***** sometimes. (You’ve got to love the Greeks for putting that element of human nature into Pandora’s Box. Hope can get you through the day but it can also lead you to pursue painful and futile ends in life.)</p>
<p>As for the sacrifice question, I don’t think that I’d give anything up to attend either school. Don’t get me wrong, Berkeley is my first choice and UCLA is a close second, but I just don’t think going to a particular school would be worth personal sacrifice. All of the schools in the system offer good-excellent educations and life is too damn hard without having to make sacrifices.</p>
<p>do you guys realize that for a lot of us th edecisions have alreayd been made?</p>
<p>I try not to dwell on that. The idea that the decision is just sitting there and the office is prohibited from releasing it early/individually–by policy–annoys me.</p>
<p>Eschatos: My thoughts exactly, but it happens my “back up plan” – because of Cal and UCLA reject me, I have nowhere to go – was to hang out in London for as long as it takes for them to kick me out. 
So I’d be giving that up if Cal accepted me, which is no small thing because it seems I’m looking forward to bumming in Europe far more than college…</p>
<p>Malishka31: Unfortunately, yes. It just makes the wait maddening.</p>
<p>Is anyone applying to a less competitive major to get in, then planning on declaring a different one at Cal/UCLA, etc?</p>
<p>I thought about applying to Celtic Studies, since that’s what I really intend to study if I go to Cal, but I realized my transcript and experience does not back that up at all. So for fear of them thinking I was trying to “game” the admissions system, I chose to just put English, which is a very well documented interest in my file. Hope that one doesn’t come back to bite me. >_></p>
<p>That’s cool, undecided. You should definitely hit up Dublin on your journey (whenever that may be). That place is insane.</p>
<p>I applied as a plant biology major w/ TAP to UCLA. I think there were a total of 6 applicants last year. I plan on switching to physiological science if I get admitted.</p>