UC Berkeley vs Stanford Asian Americans

nosering
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:01:57 +0000

Thank you, muckdogs07 for your clarification.

In answer to HYPSMClessHY, I don’t want to say too much because I don’t want readers to start guessing my daughter’s school!

But I will say that the school does not rank. It would be terribly unfair to do so, because some classes that are very demanding are not designated as “weighted” classes, particularly the college level math classes.

The school is a large school with a superb student body. The number of students in each class varies quite a bit from year to year. I’ll give you some data from Naviance. I think the best approach is to compare admission to the top schools with admission to Berkeley. I would say that in a typical year, 80 students are accepted to Berkeley. Maybe 10-15 more students each year are accepted to UCLA than to Berkeley. Many/all of these students are competitive for Ivies and Ivy equivalent schools. Most (but not all) students who apply to the Ivies also apply to Berkeley. Between 3 and 5 are typically admitted to Harvard and Yale. Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Cal Tech, and Columbia tend to accept, on average, maybe, one more than Harvard accepts. Johns Hopkins tends to accept a few more students each year than a school like Columbia. Stanford, which recruits a lot of athletes, accepts quite a few more, and is a top destination for many students. Acceptances from the U of Chicago, which seems to like my daughter’s high school very much, have skyrocketed in recent years. Some students, up to 5 or 6, typically apply to any given top 10 or 15 LAC each year, but often times, no one enrolls if accepted and the next year, the LAC accepts fewer numbers of students. But the top LACs seem willing most of the time to take 1 or 2 applicants. Wellesley accepts quite a few more.

Fewer than half of the students accepted to Berkeley wind up attending. Considering that some students choose UCLA or UCSD and less frequently, Davis, over Berkeley, I would guess that about 30 or 40 students each year attend an Ivy, Ivy equivalent, or top 10 or top 15 LAC. Most of the remaining top students go to UCLA or Berkeley.

I keep telling my daughter that she should pay more attention to what graduates of the schools she is considering do after graduation. That’s why I keep pushing LACs, even the ones that rank considerably below the top 10, that she is using as safety schools.

I hope that answers your question.