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<p>Really? How do you measure marginal cases? Should we take Berkeley’s 25% SAT range? How many are there at Stanford? At MIT? Where are there more “marginal” students? </p>
<p>And, if we want to get back to the OP (as someone intimated we should) why not set aside the “marginal” students and stick to the fact this student has a 34 ACT. </p>
<p>You guys are simply going around and around in an attempt to fabricating admission data that simply does not correspond to what is commonly known. </p>
<p>Pretending it is easier to gain admittance at Stanford or MIT than at Berkeley is ludicrous, and you KNOW it! And you also know that all three schools make decisions based on holistic approaches.</p>
<p>If the idea here is to HELP the OP, we should stick to useful data. It makes no difference to any of us if the OP applies to Stanford or Berkeley. It is however not very smart to reinforce the erroneous ideas he submitted in his original post.</p>
<p>For some this is an exercise in misplaced “bragging” rights!</p>