<p>abirch - yea i agree that natural intelligence will eventually take over but it’s not a measure of academic success which is why most colleges reject high SAT/low GPA kids.</p>
<p>“Princeton and WashU don’t require SAT II’s either, but I’m sure most who got in did well.” NYU is no princeton or washu, heh.</p>
<p>maybe all your friends lied about their SAT II scores. who knows. it’s irrelevant until we see some official numbers from nyu.</p>
<p>“It doesn’t matter that Berkeley is mostly white and asian, the California public schools are reputed to be the worst in the nation–that sentence rhymes, I might just be a rapper if this college thing doesn’t work.” BS and irrelevant. the worst public schools in the country are in the deep south states. </p>
<p><a href=“http://detroit.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=detroit&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morganquitno.com%2Fedrank04.htm[/url]”>http://detroit.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=detroit&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morganquitno.com%2Fedrank04.htm</a> this list here puts cali at number 40 but w/e.</p>
<p>MA is #1 but i don’t see people clamoring to go to UMASS or the number two UCONN. unless you want to claim that those schools are better than UC system (or even better than #12 VA) ones in which case i’d be happy to tear you apart. :)</p>
<p>CA has ~50 million people so i’m sure there are plenty of very good public schools in the wealthy bay and socal areas. i hear they have private schools in CA too but i know that is just too crazy for a lot of you to comprehend.</p>