<p>I completely agree with several of the things people have said here:
FloridaDad5 stated that “every smart kid in the whole state applies” which is completely true. I am a CA senior and every single kid I know who applied to any UC schools whatsoever applied to UCLA (in addition to Berkeley) simply because many people consider them the top 2 schools in the system.
Also, Sikorsky made a valuable point that the difficulty of the application has no ties whatsoever to the quality of the school itself. I offer Wesleyan U. as an example of this, which is considered one of the nation’s top liberal arts, and which didn’t require a single supplement!</p>