Campus comparison · Fall 2025
Many leading feeder schools overlap, but their campus outcomes differ
In this group of 386 California high schools, 11 schools appear in both campuses’ top 20 by Fall 2025 admit count. Across the same school group, UCLA admitted 9.5% of reported applicants and UC Berkeley admitted 13.4%. These are school-cohort rates; the applicants at the two campuses are not necessarily the same people.
Compare the denominator before the rank
A campus can receive many more applications from a school without admitting proportionally more students. That is why a count-based feeder ranking and an admit-rate comparison answer different questions.
UCLA
9.5%4,980 admits ÷ 52,695 applicants
Same 386-school group · Fall 2025
Shared scale: 0–100%UC Berkeley
13.4%6,058 admits ÷ 45,261 applicants
Same 386-school group · Fall 2025
Shared scale: 0–100%These figures exclude schools without complete qualifying counts at both campuses. For a different population—the full campus entering class—use the campus-wide benchmarks.
The same high schools, viewed at both campuses
The rows are ordered by combined applicant volume. Each cell shows the admit rate and its underlying counts. The cohort baselines above provide context, not a prediction for any school.
| High school | UCLA | UC Berkeley | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dougherty Valley High SchoolSan Ramon · Contra Costa | 7.6%42 admits / 555 applicants | 8.1%44 admits / 542 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Dublin High SchoolDublin · Alameda | 7.9%34 admits / 430 applicants | 9.2%40 admits / 435 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Arcadia High SchoolArcadia · Los Angeles | 9.3%39 admits / 421 applicants | 13.7%51 admits / 371 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Canyon Crest AcademySan Diego · San Diego | 11.6%44 admits / 380 applicants | 8.4%29 admits / 346 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Granada Hills Charter High SchGranada Hills · Los Angeles | 9.5%39 admits / 409 applicants | 11.6%34 admits / 293 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| American High SchoolFremont · Alameda | 10.0%35 admits / 351 applicants | 7.2%25 admits / 348 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Lowell High SchoolSan Francisco · San Francisco | 7.2%24 admits / 335 applicants | 11.6%42 admits / 363 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Berkeley High SchoolBerkeley · Alameda | 9.3%33 admits / 354 applicants | 22.9%73 admits / 319 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Troy High SchoolFullerton · Orange | 9.5%34 admits / 359 applicants | 17.4%52 admits / 299 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Monta Vista High SchoolCupertino · Santa Clara | 8.6%28 admits / 327 applicants | 10.3%33 admits / 321 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Diamond Bar High SchoolDiamond Bar · Los Angeles | 9.6%33 admits / 343 applicants | 18.1%54 admits / 299 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
| Irvington High SchoolFremont · Alameda | 7.9%25 admits / 317 applicants | 9.7%31 admits / 319 applicants | Open both campus charts → |
A larger campus rate does not describe every school
Within the displayed schools, Canyon Crest Academy and American High School have higher UCLA rates than Berkeley rates, even though the combined cohort has a higher Berkeley rate. Read the school’s applicant counts and history alongside the aggregate before drawing a conclusion.
This variation is exactly why a useful comparison starts with the same school and year. It cannot tell us whether the same students applied to both campuses, which majors they chose, or how those applicants differed.
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The full feeder pages contain the broader school lists and campus-specific counts.
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These study groups have specific reporting requirements. Your school’s profile may still have useful data even if it is outside a study group.
Source, method and limitations
Include California public and private high schools with at least 50 reported applicants and a reported, valid admit count at both UCLA and UC Berkeley in Fall 2025. This produces 386 schools. Rank each campus’s top 20 within that cohort by admits, then applicants, then school ID to break ties. The school comparison table selects the 12 schools with the largest combined application counts, using the same ID tie-breaker. A school outside this group may still appear on a campus’s full feeder page.
Calculated from the site’s existing California public and private high-school records in the University of California admissions by source school dataset. All figures here use individual-campus records. A student may apply to more than one campus, so cross-campus application totals do not represent unique people.
Rates are ratios of summed reported counts, rather than averages of school percentages. Missing or suppressed counts are excluded under the stated rules and are never changed to zero. These are selected school cohorts, not campus-wide acceptance rates. Applicant characteristics can change even when the schools stay the same. Historical outcomes do not predict one student’s chances or show that a particular high school causes an admissions advantage.
Download analyzed counts and cohort school IDs (JSON). The calculation script reproduces the analysis from the existing source records.
For the separate preliminary campus-wide release, see Fall 2026 UC acceptance rates. The source-school methodology guide explains the underlying fields.
Questions about this comparison
Are UCLA and Berkeley feeder schools the same?
11 of the top 20 schools by admitted-student count overlap within this 386-school comparison group. “Feeder” describes historical volume, not a special admissions agreement.
Does the higher cohort rate make Berkeley easier for my student?
No. Applicants, majors and academic profiles differ by campus and school. These aggregate outcomes do not estimate an individual applicant’s probability of admission.
Why is my school missing from this table?
The visible table highlights 12 high-application-volume schools. The larger comparison group also requires at least 50 applicants and reported admit counts at both campuses. Use school lookup for the full individual profile.