<p>Not a big fan of either school, but really, it is just a matter of personal taste. Both schools are very good. Either way though, I would much rather go to UCLA over Cal and Georgia over Emory.</p>
<p>Hey Oxford is to help dumb people get in loooooooooooooooooooool</p>
<p>but no berkeley sucks</p>
<p>^hey i wouldn’t be talking Emory isn’t any better of than Cal considering its endowment has not grown at all since the 90s and has recently taken a blow.</p>
<p>Endowment matters? And I’m just ■■■■■■■■ Berekely is a good school.</p>
<p>Emory has its Oxford College, Berkeley has its junior college transfers. Maybe somebody has the percentage of jucos in the Berkeley graduating class. I don’t, but
I’m guessing it’s a bigger percentage than the percentage of Oxford people in the Emory graduating class.
This is admirable on the part of Berkeley, which has different social obligations than Emory. But there are many more students at Berkeley with just plain weak SATs than at Emory.
Of course the Berkeley name is the best known nationally and internationally. I don’t think the undergraduate experience is appealing at either.</p>
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<p>Please read post number 12. There I explained that Berkeley has a holistic admission system and doesn’t weigh SAT scores as much as other private schools do. Berkeley does not also superscore SATs. If it does, the average SAT scores of Berkeley would probably increase by 40-50 points. And, if Berkeley would treat SAT scores as much as the private schools do, it would have a convincing lead over Emory’s. The reason why Berkeley’s SAT scores is not as high as, say Brown’s or any lower Ivy, it’s because Berkeley believes SATs are that important. [YouTube</a> - UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGI2e4GG9E]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGI2e4GG9E)</p>
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<p>Both Duke and Washington University at SL have higher SAT scores than Stanford. Are Duke and WUSL superior to Duke? I don’t think so.</p>
<p>first of all, the quality of students cannot be measured by SATs scores alone. In fact, according to the study conducted by the University of California researchers, the past high schools performance is a better gauge for college performance. Meaning, those who did very, very well in high school have higher chances of performing very well in college. </p>
<p>second, when we assess schools, we do not just assess the students. The schools are made up of:
- students
- faculty
- facilities
- curricula
- output</p>
<p>When you rate the students, you only rate one of the many components that make up a school/university.</p>
<p>RML, most privates, especially elite private, use “holistic admissions”.</p>
<p>One can even say that privates are more holistic than publics just because of the sheer size of applications that public schools have to deal with.</p>
<p>^ If you’ll watch this video, you wouldn’t really say that – [YouTube</a> - UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGI2e4GG9E]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGI2e4GG9E)</p>
<p>I don’t think Emory’s admissions are more “holistic” than Berkeley’s.</p>
<p>Although I find that, for the most part, USNWR rankings are reliable (certainly more so than all the other rankings systems), it is unfortunate that first-rate public universities like Berkeley and UCLA are ranked so low, when they really belong in the top 20, at the very least. If you were to rank the schools based on the quality of the faculty alone, Berkeley would easily be ranked alongside the Ivy Leagues, yet in USNWR, it is ranked 21st or 22nd. This just doesn’t make any sense.</p>
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<p>Outside the United States, UC Berkeley is widely recognized as one of the top 5 universities ** in the world **. Also, very few people outside the US have ever heard of Emory University. </p>
<p>American HS students in particular give too much weight to silly * magazine rankings * like the one from US News & World Report.</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>For some reason, I think you can get a better education at Emory over Berkeley…</p>
<p>Smaller class sizes…</p>