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<p>You are falling into the trap of equating admit rate with selectivity. Berkeley’s high number of applications (due in part to the ease of applying if one is also applying to other UCs) means its admit rate will be necessarily low. Other schools improve their “selectivity” this way by spending a ton of money on marketing to get kids to apply (i.e., Tulane) or by just being one of the schools many kids dream of attending (i.e., NYU). There are numerous schools with higher average stats of entering students than Berkeley that admit a greater percentage of their applicants.</p>