03-27-2018, 11:18 PM
I have some experience with UC undergraduate admissions at UCLA and SB. Most likely explanation: the student applied to CS in Letters & Science at C.al and CS in the School of Engineering at UCLA. In general, the Engineering schools require a lot of science classes, more AP/honors and higher overall GPA for admission than L&S.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)