<p>Until all the schools have grade inflation. Then it helps no one.</p>
<p>In the meantime, it's a good thing for students attending universities with grade inflation, bad for everyone else.</p>
<p>doesn't cal have grade deflation? that intense curve... =(</p>
<p>Berkeley > other UCs, Pomona College</p>
<p>Berkeley has some grade inflation relative to the national average, and average GPAs fairly close to the average private school in this study.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a></p>
<p>People say easier grading can be found in certain disciplines, majors, classes relative to others.</p>
<p>Yes supposedly grade deflation is only really bad in engineering and the like.</p>
<p>Chose Berkeley over U-Mich Ann Arbor, all the other UCs including some with Regents Scholarship (full-rides), U Washington, and COrnell.</p>
<p>so not really that hard of a choice</p>
<p>cal over the rest of the uc's and emory</p>
<p>Cornell is taking a serious hit on these boards. I didn't go back and check, but it seems like 3 or 4 people are turning it down for Cal.</p>
<p>ebonytear: little over double of 11% could be as high at 30%. Not much of a gap with Harvard's legacy rate. It's kind of funny that the rate itself is not published in that article, which indicates that it's probably close to 30%.</p>
<p>Hey, that 25 billion dollar endowment has to come from somewhere.</p>
<p>Haha 3 or 4 is no serious hit to any school, but I do know some kids here who turned it down- mosly because of loaction/weather/seemingly unnecessary cost.</p>
<p>I was bored so I did a little counting.</p>
<p>From posters on this thread, the following schools have been rejected for Berkeley the following number of times:</p>
<p>Other UCs: 10
Cornell: 3
WUSTL: 3
NYU: 2
USC: 2
Princeton: 1
Stanford: 1
BU: 1
Georgetown: 1
UT: 1
Chicago: 1
Rice: 1
Northwestern: 1
UW-Seattle: 1
Pomona: 1
U-Mich Ann Arbor: 1
Emory: 1</p>
<p>UCLA, UCSD, Chicago, Oberlin, USC</p>
<p>UC's, USC, Duke, Harvey Mudd, Dartmouth</p>
<p>wow... the thought of someone turning down princeton for cal still blows my mind.</p>
<p>Notre dame, UCLA, UCSD, Tulane, USC, and Cal Poly SLO</p>
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<p>The person had extenuating circumstances. Besides, had I been accepted I might have opted for Cal over Princeton...the school just doesn't fit me personality-wise. Just because Princeton is a better school for undergraduates overall doesn't mean everyone will choose Princeton over Berkeley.</p>
<p>As far as I know, I'm going to Berkeley (Columbia waitlist... but at the moment, I don't have particularily strong feelings towards Columbia).</p>
<p>Turning down:</p>
<p>Cornell U(Tanner Dean Scholar)
Rice U
Other UC's
Washington U in St. Louis</p>
<p>I know I'm forgetting some random colleges in there, but those are the ones I remember.</p>
<p>The Valedictorian at my school turned down Harvard last year, and my GC told me someone in else in my school is turning down Princeton for one of the UC's this year.</p>
<p>I turned down: UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSB, USC.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Well, I first narrowed it down between UCLA and Cal so I visited both. I just felt more in my zone so to speak at Cal than at LA. I liked the environment and the people. And just the overall prestige factor, too. Strangely enough, I think Cal offered me the most $.</p>