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<p>The most recent Common Data Set posted by UCB on its own site is the 2011-12 CDS. According to that document, Section C9, its SAT CR range was 600-720. That data is for freshmen entering in Fall 2011 (same as the USNWR data I cited above.) The average GPA reported in the same document (section C12) was 3.83. USNWR apparently rounded that down to 3.8. I mistakenly transposed the Vanderbilt (3.7) and Berkeley (3.8) GPAs in my earlier post. Sorry about that.
[UC</a> Berkeley Office of Planning & Analysis / Common Data Set](<a href=“http://opa.berkeley.edu/statistics/cds/index.html]UC”>Common Data Set | Office of Planning and Analysis)</p>
<p>Of course, you’ll see other numbers flying around. I prefer to go with the CDS (warts and all) because it is always dated, and it at least makes a pretense of applying standard methods to support apples-to-apples comparisons across schools.</p>
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<p>Again, I was looking at the USNWR numbers for 2011 admissions, which appear to correspond perfectly to UCB’s 2011-12 CDS (cited above). Section C1 reports 11,441 accepted from 52,966 applications, which does work out to 21.6%. That same number is cited on parchment.com and wikipedia. Now, if you have a more authoritative source than the UCB CDS, maybe you’d like to cite it. </p>
<p>Not that I’d be surprised to learn about discrepancies in any of this data. However, whether the admit rate is 21.6% or 25%, we’re still talking about one of the most selective universities in America. Unfortunately, the US News integer rankings express these comparisons with way more precision than the data really supports.</p>