<p>I’ve heard quite a few times that Berkeley’s pretty nice in Japanese. I was a bit disappointed when I saw actual placement tests, though. It seems to me that the Ivies/top LACs/Chicago/MIT/Stanford go at a slightly faster pace. At Chicago, at least (the only place where I’ve actually taken classes), it seems that we’ve done all the material required for placement into 3rd year at Berkeley after 2nd year, 1st quarter. I’m assuming Pomona and Stanford have similar paces as ours.</p>
<p><a href=“http://japanese.berkeley.edu/placement.html[/url]”>http://japanese.berkeley.edu/placement.html</a></p>
<p>So in that case, I would consider Berkeley, Stanford, and Pomona as top choices, as well as some of the UCs.</p>