UChicago or UC Berkeley?

[beyphy]

<p>It’s pretty well established that Berkeley and UCLA take some very weak students who will either A) take longer to graduate or B) may never graduate altogether. For example:</p>

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Despite the stiff competition for admission this year [2013], UCLA continued to honor its longstanding commitment to socioeconomic diversity, with nearly 31 percent of admitted California residents reporting they will be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college and 31 percent coming from low-income families.

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<p><a href=“UCLA admits more than 16,000 exceptional students for its fall 2013 freshman class | UCLA”>http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-admits-more-than-16-000-exceptional-245294.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>How many students at Chicago are the first in their families to attend college? How many students at Chicago come from low-income families? The answer to both is probably not very many. And that’s not surprising, since Berkeley and Chicago have different goals for their incoming classes. They could avoid many of those students and increase their four-year graduation rates as a result. But they’d be denying a wonderful opportunity to many students who would benefit most from it in the process.</p>