How competitive is Stanford?

UCBChemEGrad
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:43:01 +0000

Actually, I would say that what really skews that data is the large population of community college transfer students, a disproportionate portion of which probably have relatively low (for Berkeley) SAT scores, or would have had such scores if they had taken the SAT.

It was my understanding that Berkeley does not consider SAT scores for transfer students, just college grades and essay.

When I transferred I did not have to submit my SAT scores. So, I don’t think SAT scores for transfer students get averaged in with the data.

I did take the SAT and my score was crap, yet somehow, I still managed to transfer to Berkeley from a CSU, take supposedly the hardest major at Cal and graduate with a 3.1 GPA…Go figure!