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I don't know what type of "top students" they are, but they turning up at UCLA instead of Berkeley or Princeton looks interesting to me.
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<p>This wasn't even said.</p>
<p>However, I think UCLA wins about 1/3 to 1/2 of the cross-admits with Berkeley.</p>
<p>Berkeley and UCLA both lose the vast majority of cross admits with Princeton-- this is not surprising.</p>
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Beida, Todai: Just four things:
1. Look at the entrance
2. Look at how much students need to study to get in
3. They are top 0.1% and top 0.5% of China and Japan respectively. Cornell is no where as selective.
4. Look at Todai's research.
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<p>Number 1 and 2 only tell you that they're hard to get into. They don't tell you that they're any good. If a country has, by design, a highly restricted number of universities actually given the opportunity to develop good programs, then numbers alone tell you that it will have low admission numbers. However, it does not actually say whether or not those programs will be as good as other programs in other countries.</p>