<p>I suppose everything is possible. In all my time, I think I met a grand total of one undergrad that had actually gotten into Stanford and turned it down for Berkeley*. So Dstark and I are clearly seeing very different pictures.</p>
<p>Grad school is a different story. I know quite a few people who turned down Stanford for Berkeley for grad school. But undergrad, not so much.</p>
<p>*Even more interestingly, this same guy later found out that he didn’t really like Berkeley after all and successfully transferred, ironically, to Stanford. I suppose he would have been better off if he had just chosen Stanford in the first place.</p>