UC Berkeley vs. Duke

Nocreativity1
Mon, 07 May 2018 00:28:29 +0000

Sbballer-
You may want to correct the poster below who is “confused” having not included UBC in the same league as Duke, Princeton, Yale… He is hardly alone. This is someone who is making a real world decision not just spouting off.

Both great schools and I agree not in the same league… Duke is an elite top 10 private school like those listed by the poster below, UCB is not.

“I’m a high school sophomore at a competitive high school in the Northeast. I plan on taking 10 AP classes in my high school career (1 in 10th, 4 in 11th, 5 in 12th) but other top students at my school will be taking about 12 APs because they do not do art or music as one of their elective spots. After 10th grade, I will have a 4.3 GPA and am aiming to apply to colleges like Princeton, Yale, Williams, and Duke. Taking more APs will not help my GPA because my school limits the amount of AP weighting (4.667) students can get per year which is 2 in 10th, 3 in 11th, and 4 in 12th. Will continuing to do orchestra hurt me when top colleges compare me to other peers in terms of difficulty of schedule or will a difference at this high a number of APs not matter? Thanks in advance for any input”.