<p>cherokeejew,
You are accurate with your statement about the higher absolute numbers of 1500 scorers at UC Berkeley vs UCLA, but it’s not like they are scarce at UCLA either. According to some work done by another poster (collegehelp?), the top schools for 1500 scorers were as follows:</p>
<pre><code> # of 1500 scorers , % of student body , College
</code></pre>
<p>1 3668 , 16% , UC Berkeley
2 3333 , 50% , Harvard
3 3110 , 32% , U Penn
4 2805 , 21% , Cornell
5 2791 , 11% , UCLA
6 2516 , 7% , U Texas Austin
7 2513 , 46% , Yale
8 2435 , 37% , Stanford
9 2282 , 35% , Duke
10 2198 , 30% , Columbia
11 2013 , 7% , U Illinois UC
12 2007 , 49% , MIT
13 1998 , 32% , Brown
14 1998 , 25% , Northwestern
15 1977 , 12% , USC
16 1953 , 40% , Princeton
17 1891 , 9% , NYU
18 1882 , 25% , Wash U
19 1723 , 12% , U Virginia
20 1645 , 6% , U Michigan
21 1639 , 5% , U Florida
22 1505 , 18% , U Notre Dame
23 1501 , 32% , U Chicago
24 1486 , 36% , Dartmouth
25 1478 , 22% , Georgetown
26 1470 , 12% , Georgia Tech
27 1349 , 7% , UC San Diego
28 1278 , 23% , Johns Hopkins
29 1148 , 18% , Emory
30 1115 , 22% , Tufts
31 1030 , 32% , Rice
32 1026 , 16% , Vanderbilt
33 981 , 17% , Carnegie Mellon
34 893 , 10% , Boston College
35 892 , 5% , UNC Chapel Hill
36 844 , 3% , U Washington
37 721 , 3% , UC Davis
38 711 , 13% , W&M
39 708 , 4% , UC Santa Barbara
40 687 , 2% , Penn State
41 567 , 62% , Caltech
42 561 , 2% , U Wisconsin
43 543 , 11% , RPI
44 535 , 7% , Tulane
45 514 , 13% , Case Western
46 470 , 2% , UC Irvine
47 414 , 9% , U Rochester
48 399 , 12% , Brandeis
49 291 , 6% , Lehigh
50 278 , 7% , Wake Forest </p>
<p>Ranked by % of student body</p>
<p>1 62% Caltech
2 50% Harvard
3 49% MIT
4 46% Yale
5 40% Princeton
6 37% Stanford
7 36% Dartmouth
8 35% Duke
9 32% U Chicago
9 32% U Penn
9 32% Rice
9 32% Brown
13 30% Columbia
14 25% Northwestern
14 25% Wash U
16 23% Johns Hopkins
17 22% Tufts
17 22% Georgetown
19 21% Cornell
20 18% Emory
20 18% Notre Dame
22 17% Carnegie Mellon
23 16% Vanderbilt
23 16% UC Berkeley
25 13% W & M
25 13% Case Western
27 12% Brandeis
27 12% U Virginia
27 12% Georgia Tech
27 12% USC
31 11% UCLA
31 11% RPI
33 10% BC
34 9% U Rochester
34 9% NYU
36 7% U Texas
36 7% Wake Forest
36 7% U Illinois
36 7% UC San Diego
36 7% Tulane
41 6% Lehigh
41 6% U Michigan
43 5% U North Carolina
43 5% U Florida
45 4% UC Santa Barbara
46 3% U Washington
46 3% UC Davis
48 2% Penn State
48 2% U Wisconsin
48 2% UC Irvine</p>