Why are 4.0s rejected?

otoribashi
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 05:13:59 +0000

not sure if this applies to berkeley and UCLA, but ive heard that sometimes top 4.0 students get rejected from the lower schools because admissions think they’ll get admitted to the more prestigious schools and not SIR with them. this prevents them from lowering their admit rate since they’ll only accept people who have more of a chance of actually enrolling with them. perhaps the interest or fit just doesn’t come across.