<p>It may just be that Berkeley doesn’t have that many qualified applicants in relation to the total student population relatively. If you go to the grade inflation post I made, you can see that in absolute numbers Yale, Stanford grads outnumbered Berkeley students by anywhere from 2 to 6 times at top law schools. Its only a rough guess but this may be the case for grad school admissions as well. Keep in mind there are also 5 times the students at Berkeley versus an Ivy, so even if Berkeley were to accept the same number of grad students from UCB as someplace like Yale or Stanford, in relative terms it would be much smaller and it would be harder for anyone on campus to know of such a person accepted.</p>