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<p>Uh, no, now you’re being ridiculous. Spring admits are a wait-list, or maybe more accurately, are a way for Berkeley to go beyond the regular admissions list to bring in even more students than they would under regular admissions. </p>
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<p>Hardly. Let’s face it: spring admits are almost certainly the weaker of the admitted student pool - for if they were stronger, then they would have been admitted under the regular fall sequence- and weaker students are obvious,ly the least likely to have other strong options, and hence are the most likely to be yielded by Berkeley. Let’s face it. Given the choice between going to Berkeley as a spring admit, or ending up at a lesser school as a regular admit, I’m quite certainly that most people would choose Berkeley. However, given the choice between a spring admit at Berkeley and going to Stanford, and I think that’s not a close call. {Heck, even given the choice of fall admit to Berkeley and Stanford is apparently not a close call according to the cross-admit data.}</p>