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<p>Sure, but rankings no doubt influence the perception of reputation. It surely hasn’t gone unnoticed that in the several rankings available (or mainly USNWR since that’s the de facto lay ranking) that UCLA is ranked higher than Michigan. Age is important, but it isn’t everything. </p>
<p>Michigan’s older than Stanford too; i doubt anyone would say it’s reputation is better than Stanford’s due to age or anything else…</p>
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<p>last statement was vague. I meant berkeley recently started accepted 30% OOS/international just like UCLA.</p>
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<p>Who knows? Our debate about these universities prestige in Asia might be relevant to helping him “succeed in life” :p</p>