MIT, Stanford, Cornell, UCB, GT, UMich, Purdue, UF

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Really? Let’s see if there’s some truth to that.</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning Test scores (25th % 75th percentiles) </p>

<p>Reading
Berkeley: 620-740
USC: 620 – 720</p>

<p>Math
Berkeley: 650-770
USC: 650 – 750</p>

<p>Writing
Berkeley: 640-750
USC: 640 – 740</p>

<p>Looks like Berkeley has higher SATs than USC has for the combined 3 subject tests as well as in each and every subject category that despite that Berkeley does not superscore SATs, and USC does. Not only that, since the OP is applying to the College of Engineering, I’m quite certain that the odds for him at Berkeley is significantly smaller than at USC. Last year, only about 15% were admitted to the College of Engineering at Berkeley as opposed to over 24% at USC. And, yes, for engineering, USC’s engineering would certainly fall 2nd-tier when compared to Berkeley’s engineering. Tier 1 engineering schools are MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Calttech. USC’s engineering, whilst brilliant, isn’t up to par to Berkeley’s. </p>

<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>As far as I know, the only school that does that is Harvard. It does not hurt to apply there. I know a few kids who got into Harvard with yoru stats. The odds is even smaller, but there is a chance.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the info. </p>

<p>I am almost positive I read somewhere that under 60K income at Cornell (and most Ivies) gets you more or less everything paid. Can someone confirm/deny this?</p>

<p>And anymore chances?</p>

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<p>I had a friend who attended Cornell. He received about 30 thousand dollars from them and his mom received quite a bit under the income you mentioned, so I don’t think that is how it works there.</p>

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<p>Do you know what year that was? I think the change was very recent, like within the last year or two.</p>

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<p>He entered last year. I was surprised he did not get more money either, but apparently ended up taking money in loans</p>