<p>Xiggi, please remember that I was</p>
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<li>only telling my point of view as an international applicant, so at the time that I was applying, what matters to me was the statistics that only matter to me.</li>
<li>Berkeley has a separate data for international applicants/students</li>
<li>Princeton did not have data that are separated from the overall data</li>
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<p>I think that one of the biggest reasons why Berkeley was/is viewed as a super elite school outside of the US (especially during the time that I was applying) was/is because Berkeley was/is super selective for international applicants. It has an admissions rate similar to those of HYPSM’s. And, like we all know, school selectivity influences school prestige.</p>