USC vs. UCLA competitive admissions

beyphy
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:35:00 +0000

There are many super smart kids that got in but got into much better schools such as Ivies or Berkeley or other places like that, so they’re not going.



Berkeley isn’t ‘much better’ than UCLA. That’s why the former’s only ranked 4 above the latter in USNEWS. And in all non-USNEWS rankings, UCLA’s a peer of pretty much all the ivies except HYP.



I believe UCLA practices the “Tufts Syndrome,” whereby they will reject kids who likely will go to USC and the Ivies, etc. It’s a smart decision, especially given how large the typical freshmen classes are at UCLA.



I like how you put “USC and the Ivies” together, as if it’s at their level :rolleyes:

UCLA rejects students with top stats because there’s essentially wasted admits. They’ll likely get into better schools and attend better schools. in Fall 2k11, UCLA overenrolled in its admitted students, so it had to underenroll for 2012, and admit far less students.



I’ve read and heard class sizes of 600 are typical…



The largest classroom in the school holds about 300 students. And at any given time, only like 2/3rds of the students show up, sometimes less than 50%. That doesn’t really distract from student learning…