<p>More applications simply means that UCLA, and possibly the environment around UCLA, are more popular than Berkeley. Westwood, Hollywood, Santa Monica and L.A. beaches are more attractive to potential students than the negative urban reputation of Berkeley and Oakland.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no evidence that more applications mean that UCLA is somehow a better school…or a worse school than Berkeley. It’s simply a popularity contest.</p>
<p>Cotodecasa, did you really spell your hometown’s name wrong? Please, please tell me you didn’t mean Bellevue, wa, because that would be rather embarassing.</p>
<p>Also of concern was an NSF ranking of schools by amount of research funding. The University ranked 6th in 1995, 9th in 2000 and 8th in 2003. </p>
<p>UCLA shot from 9th to 1st in the same eight-year period, while several other universities moved up two or three notches. Further, during the period 1998-2003, Congress doubled the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget but the University increased its NIH funding by only 75 percent. NIH is the biggest funder of University research, accounting for 43.7 percent of the U’s research expenditures.</p>
<p>Well, I see you’ve mastered the skill of copy and paste, so you’re obviously UCLA material. Seriously though, this is bugging me, what’s the deal with your hometown? Did you spell it wrong or is there some tiny town in washington that is so small that it doesn’t even come up on google?</p>
<p>I guess you don’t understand that the whole ranking system is pretty random, 2400… based on a loose compilation of a bunch of random stats. UCLA accepts a smaller percentage of students, as well.</p>
<p>Oh, I was just thinking of last year’s numbers. I think it was, like, 23% to UCLA and 25% at UCB. Maybe I’m wrong. But historically I believe that UCLA receives a few thousand more applications each year, and thus has a lower admit rate.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6819[/url]”>http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6819</a>
More Than $3 Billion to Help Ensure Its Long-term Future
Among Worlds Leading Research Universities
No other single fund-raising campaign by a college or university has generated as much support. Other top research universities in recent years have launched fund-raising campaigns with similar monetary goals, but UCLA was the first to reach the $3 billion milestone.
" Carnesale said. “Private giving is critical if we are to continue to attract the best and the brightest.”</p>
<p>I’d also like to add that the fact that UCLA admits a smaller percentage of applicants does not necessarily make it more selective. The fact that it receives MORE applications and only has so many spots, automatically makes it appear more selective. It’s misleading.</p>