03-29-2018, 06:33 PM
Check out Mick's figures. UC had nearly 700,000 applications in total. I don't believe there is a limit as to how many UC campuses one may apply; that isn't 700,000 students. Sorting it all out is done via rejection or wait list. The on-paper qualifications of those 700,000 applicants isn't going to be that varied. Random.
Six years ago my son was accepted at Annapolis but rejected by Berkeley and wait listed at UCSD. Do not read purported "prestige" or "relative ranking" into any individual set of admission decisions. I'm pretty sure it is statistically more difficult to receive an appointment to USNA than to get into UCB or UCSD. Along with the UC decision came an automatic offer into Riverside and Santa Cruz. Just a mishmash of popularity and space available each and every year.
My main theory is applications are mostly free and kids really don't worry about rejection; thus applications to a dozen or 20 schools for each fully-qualified kid, which means lots of rejections, which means more applications, which means....
Do people really apply to particular schools because of the published yield? Those people would be dumber than the schools that game the yield in the first place. There are many, many perfectly suitable schools out there; I'd advise even top-echelon high school students to not focus just on the usual suspect glamour schools.
Check out "safety school" Cal Poly SLO, which may have the best undergraduate engineering program in California. For prospective engineering majors:
Applications 16,693
Accepted      4,440
Avg GPAÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â 4.16
Avg ACTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 32
Avg SATÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â 1467Â Â (SAT=Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and Math scores only)
Six years ago my son was accepted at Annapolis but rejected by Berkeley and wait listed at UCSD. Do not read purported "prestige" or "relative ranking" into any individual set of admission decisions. I'm pretty sure it is statistically more difficult to receive an appointment to USNA than to get into UCB or UCSD. Along with the UC decision came an automatic offer into Riverside and Santa Cruz. Just a mishmash of popularity and space available each and every year.
My main theory is applications are mostly free and kids really don't worry about rejection; thus applications to a dozen or 20 schools for each fully-qualified kid, which means lots of rejections, which means more applications, which means....
Do people really apply to particular schools because of the published yield? Those people would be dumber than the schools that game the yield in the first place. There are many, many perfectly suitable schools out there; I'd advise even top-echelon high school students to not focus just on the usual suspect glamour schools.
Check out "safety school" Cal Poly SLO, which may have the best undergraduate engineering program in California. For prospective engineering majors:
Applications 16,693
Accepted      4,440
Avg GPAÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â 4.16
Avg ACTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 32
Avg SATÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â 1467Â Â (SAT=Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and Math scores only)
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