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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, let's just be honest here.  This kid was not ivy+ material.  He also didn't get into his flagship university, UC Berkeley.  Where he landed makes a lot of sense.[/quote]

Berkeley and UCLA are considered equally prestigious. Rankings and admissions rates are about the same. For Neuroscience I’d give the edge to UCLA because of the medical school.

What’s Ivy+ material? Berkeley and UCLA kids are not below Ivy, you’re just being ridiculous. I’d take in state UCLA over Dartmouth or Cornell any day. [/quote]

UCLA's freshman class size is more than 6,500.  Of those more than 2,500 students (which is exceeds the entirety of all Ivy freshman class sizes except at Cornell and UPenn) have SATs below below 1290.

So you are just wrong. Obviously wrong, in fact. UCLA kids are below Ivy.  Unless you are one of those flat earthers who believes SATs don't have predictive power of college readiness and success?

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Check your math or more time. If the 25-75% SAT range is 1290-1510, and the class size is 6500 then only 1625 students scored below 1290, not 2500. Amazing how you can’t even do arithmetic, but are so quick to dump on high schoolers that are far brighter than you.

On one hand you say SAT matters, on the other hand the kid with 25 APs is not ivy material even though he scored 1580. He would have been fine at Ivy, and would have gotten in with a more polished application. [/quote]

Not to mention, that data is at least 4-5 years old … and since then, TO schools (like most of the Ivys until the last year, along with UVA, etc.) began strategically using TO admissions to nudge their admitted students with lower test scores into applying TO (for the purpose of deceptively creating the appearance of a boost in their test score metrics).[/quote]

UCLA bans the use of SATs in admissions.  How do you think that has impacted its student quality?  Do you think it has elevated it? Or do you think what happened at UCSD is most likely happening at UCLA?  Do you even know how UCLA admits by high school?[/quote]

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