What Are the Admission Rates and Insights for California's 4-Year Colleges?

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The discussion provides a comprehensive overview of admission rates for California's 4-year colleges, ranking them from the easiest to the most difficult to gain admission. The University of California: Merced has the highest acceptance rate at 91%, while the University of California: Berkeley has the lowest at 22%. Additional insights include perceptions of campus life, such as party reputations at California State University: Chico and University of California: Santa Barbara. The conversation also highlights the limited diversity at California State University: East Bay and the impact of space constraints on admissions.

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This is a list of 4 year Colleges in California, ranking from easiest to get into to most difficult. Anyone want to share any additional facts about them, other than that there are already a very limited number of comments down below a few of the schools listed here. Additional facts wanted. Also Are there any schools not on the list here?

University of California: Merced
Merced, CA
% applicants admitted: 91%
Easiest UC to get into

California State University: Chico
Chico, CA
% applicants admitted: 88%
Small, college city with party reputation.

California State University: Dominguez Hills
Carson, CA
% applicants admitted: 84%

California State University: Monterey Bay
Seaside, CA
% applicants admitted: 81%University of California: Riverside
Riverside, CA
% applicants admitted: 79%

California State University: Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
% applicants admitted: 77%
LA has horrible traffic, would never live there

Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA
% applicants admitted: 76%

Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA
% applicants admitted: 75%

California State University: Northridge
Northridge, CA
% applicants admitted: 75%

University of California: Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
% applicants admitted: 73%California State University: San Marcos
San Marcos, CA
% applicants admitted: 73%

California Maritime Academy
Vallejo, CA
% applicants admitted: 73%

California State University: Fresno
Fresno, CA
% applicants admitted: 70%
Most people say they do not like this school.

California State University: Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
% applicants admitted: 67%

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
% applicants admitted: 66%

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
% applicants admitted: 66%
Bad driving

California State University: Stanislaus
Turlock, CA
% applicants admitted: 66%

California State University: Bakersfield
Bakersfield, CA
% applicants admitted: 61%
Wheather is too warm

California State University: Fullerton
Fullerton, CA
% applicants admitted: 55%

University of California: Davis
Davis, CA
% applicants admitted: 53%

California State Polytechnic University: Pomona
Pomona, CA
% applicants admitted: 53%

University of California: Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
% applicants admitted: 49%
A party school, too crowdedUniversity of California: Irvine
Irvine, CA
% applicants admitted: 49%

California State University: Channel Islands
Camarillo, CA
% applicants admitted: 45%

University of California: San Diego
La Jolla, CA
% applicants admitted: 42%
has VERY nice dorms

California State University: Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
% applicants admitted: 42%
Heard this is a party school as well, but not as much as ucsb and chico

California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
% applicants admitted: 34%
Small little college city, and its about ten minutes to the beach or so.

San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
% applicants admitted: 31%
San Diego is an awesome city

University of California: Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
% applicants admitted: 23%
Not great dorms at ALL. they are also known for medical majors or something

University of California: Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
% applicants admitted: 22%
Heard that the people there like to protest and are very politicalAdditionally:
California State University: San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA
% applicants admitted: not reported

California State University: East Bay
Hayward, CA
% applicants admitted: not reported
Very limited diversity
 
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Hey why was like the only school that got a comment my school and it was on how much it sucks?

You need to factor in that some schools, mine for example, reject people simply because there isn't enough space unfortunately...
 

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