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Originally posted by Mellark
Does anyone go to UCLA/UC Berkeley? I'm a junior in high school and I'm gonna apply for colleges next year. I just want to know... is it hard to get in? I mean people are saying it's hard to get in and I just hear that essays are a factor and such.
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I go to UCLA (I'm entering this upcoming school year as a sophomore) and I got accepted to UC Berkeley as well.
For UCLA, It is hard to get in generally, but it really depends on where you live and what college you're applying to. For example, when I was accepted to the College of Letters & Science as a Biology major and an in-stater for Fall 2015, the acceptance rate was a 16%. Another example is my friend who got accepted into the school of nursing where the acceptance rate is 2.3%. I know for Fall 2016 though the acceptance rate went up by a bit because the government forced the whole UC system to accept more CA students, I believe. So I think right now if you're an Out-of-state student, it'll be a lot tougher to get in.
Also, regarding the posts above, the tier 1 Ivies + Stanford and MIT are generally harder to get into but UCLA/UC Berkeley are not what you will call a "safety" school for anyone. Honestly, at the end of the day, acceptance to all these top-tier schools are a crap-shoot no matter how qualified you are. For my graduating class, we had two valedictorians. One is in Harvard and the other is in UCSD and she got denied from Berkeley and UCLA.
If you have more questions, you can ask me as much as you want