UCLA is now the most selective school in the UC system

youcee
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:42:56 +0000

At our HS, both schools get a similar amount of applications, usually 250+, with UCLA generally getting a few more than Berkeley. Up until last year, students were usually admitted at about the same percent and attended them in about equal numbers. For whatever reason, last year far more kids were accepted to Berkeley and those that were accepted chose to go at a much higher rate. The same thing seemed to happen this year - more kids chose Berkeley from our HS than any other school in the country. Not sure what has happened in the last 2 years, but Berkeley is the ‘in’ school in our area (aside from Stanford, Ivies, MIT). From what I’ve heard at our HS, some kids that are accepted to both Berkeley and UCLA will choose Berkeley because it is ranked higher and they basically ‘have’ to for family/cultural reasons, not because they like the school better. Just anecdotal info I’ve heard from my son.