UCLA is now the most selective school in the UC system

Ynotgo
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 16:26:25 +0000

We are in SoCal but my son would have chosen Berkeley over UCLA because it is stronger in his major of physics. He was admitted to both and had Regents status at Berkeley (but only invited to apply for some alumni scholarship at UCLA). Our high school typically has many apply to both and ~15 admitted to each, but I don’t know how many of them overlap. So, applying to Berkeley doesn’t seem to be scaring them off. I’m sure some who would apply to Berkeley engineering apply to L&S instead.

Of the places he was admitted, Berkeley ended up tied for 3rd place with the CCS Physics program at UCSB. CCS moved down a bit because it is too close to home; otherwise it would probably have been higher than Berkeley. (He’ll be attending Caltech.)