<p>not to overgeneralize . but usually the students with the highest GPA that apply to the UC’s want to go to Berkeley or UCLA. Every few years there are students that get admitted to both schools so they have to make a choice. the schools are usually very good at predicting their yield rate so they know how many students to admit into order to yield a certain number of seats.</p>
<p>well this is what happened </p>
<p>in the Fall 2011 (freshman admission) Berkeley’s school of engineering decided for budget reasons to chase more of those international student fees. so they started to admit more international students (usually chinese or indian) and admitting less California residents.</p>
<p>As a result many california freshman students that normally get admitted to both UCLA and Berkeley got admitted only to UCLA school of engineering. So UCLA got a way higher yield rate than predicted and Samueli’s freshman class of 2011 was the largest freshman class.</p>
<p>Since Samueli is a very intense school there are many students that start out as freshman that change majors outside engineering . whatever students Samueli losses in the first 2 years are replaced with Transfer students by Junior year usually this number has been stable over the years. However since the Fall of 2011 freshman class was so big even with students dropping out of samueli there were not too many spots open for junior transfers . so that is why Samueli got very strict with admissions because they did not have as many seats left.</p>
<p>the yield rate for the freshman class of 2012 was not as unpredictable so there is going to be more open spots for transfer student for the fall of 2014. </p>
<p>Im pretty sure that Berkeley original decision to admit more international students also had a trickle effect at the mid-UC’s, the lower UC’s, Cal States, so on however what made it so bad for UCLA is that they refused to admit its normal transfer rate because it did not want its graduating class to get too big. maybe the other UC’s were more compassionate and just expanded their classes.</p>