UC Berkeley vs Stanford Asian Americans

HYPSMClessHY
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:07:08 +0000

@nosering

Enjoyed your posts.

Question: In the roughly 25 top 10% students in your D’s HS (and mostly Asians), how many of them usually end up being admitted to the tier-1 schools (my definition is HYPSMC + maybe UChicago and Columbia)? The reason I am asking is that I am curious if these schools do not offer spots to all these 25ish students because they may take only maximal 3 students from the same HS. So it becomes a competition of these 25ish students within themselves. I suspect probably half of the 25ish students admitted by the tier-1 schools and the rest go to schools like Berkeley, Michigan, UCLA, Cornell, Dartmouth, LAC’s, Harvey Mudd, etc.?

A related question is if the exact class ranking plays a noticeable role in the admission process assuming the top 10% students have a small spread in their GPA’s.