<li><p>YALE (99% of ranked freshman, ranked in top 10%)</p></li>
<li><p>BERKELEY</p></li>
<li><p>UC- San Diego</p></li>
<li><p>M.I.T.</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA</p></li>
<li><p>UC- Irvine</p></li>
<li><p>UC- Santa Cruz</p></li>
<li><p>UC- Davis</p></li>
<li><p>UC- Santa Barbara</p></li>
<li><p>Caltech</p></li>
<li><p>Princeton</p></li>
<li><p>UC- Riverside</p></li>
<li><p>U Penn</p></li>
<li><p>Wash U</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard (90% of ranked freshmen, ranked in Top 10%)</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford</p></li>
<li><p>Emory</p></li>
<li><p>U Michigan- Ann Arbor</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I find it difficult to accept that all of the UCs have students from the top 10% of their classes; I think this topic was brought up in another thread. I suppose most surprising is that UC Riverside is ranked above Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, and Caltech - I’m not trying to be offensive against UCR but I always thought the latter four schools were the toughest schools to get into in the USA?</p>
<p>Yale is the most stats (SAT & class rank) conscious school. Surely, Yale’s applicant pool is not stronger than Harvard’s. Harvard will often overlook rank to get the most diverse and talented class it can. Yale will often admit minorities and athletes with high SATs and less spectacular grades and mediocre EC records from schools that do NOT submit class rank. Most minorities that are admitted to both Harvard and Yale, pick Harvard more than 75% of the time.</p>
<p>UCR has a 82% acceptance rate; my friend got in with 2 F’s in senior year and a 2.8 gpa not to mention 940 sat score …</p>
<p>hmmm … UCR [does] accept mostly everyone; which leads to the conclusion that UCR will never become a prestigious school since it usually accepts students that are mostly community college bound to cal state bound … its like; i am attending a “UC” but that UC is RIVERSIDE … back to the point … when u dont get a grad degree and u just stick with ur undergrad at UCR, someone might ask you, “Where did u go to college?” you reply, “UC Riverside!” … that person might reply that you are paying for "MICKEY MOUSE EDUCATION - quoted by bewareofriverside and stayoutofriverside … seriously, i would consider going to a community college rather than go to such a not even par UC … only 1 undergrad student from UCR got into Harvard’s Law SChool … is it really true that UCR teaches the UCR/UCLA Haider Program for Medicine in portables and the basement? -i’ve heard that a lot of times from ppl on this forum
in the long run, a</p>
<p>94% of the freshmen at University of California- Riverside were in the Top 10% of their High School class.</p>
<p>The middle 50th%ile SAT range for Riverside: 960-1190</p>
<p>acceptance rate: 79% (in 2003)</p>
<p>I guess your friend was lucky to make Riverside!</p>
<p>yea … i was talking about the ppl who applied and got accepted to UCR but actually attended there</p>
<p>not as a backup school for some person who got accepted to CAL or something</p>
<p>um…i probably wasn’t in the top 50 percent of my class and i got into the UC’s i applied to including davis and santa cruz…</p>