Northwestern vs. Berkeley vs. Cornell

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northwestern University
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<p>There are plenty of people who do care about academics and being intellectual at Berkeley. I think there's enough in that huge class size that would make the school as competitive and difficult as it is.</p>

<p>I don't see why elevenbanks should pick NU or Cornell over Cal b/c of the fact that Berkeley may have people that aren't so academically inclined (it's a state school..what do you expect?...any top notch state schools have people that were mediocre students in high school). </p>

<p>NU has it's share of mediocre high school students too believe it or not.</p>

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<p>well in my country (which isnt america obviously) or rather in my school which has the largest proportion of america uni applicants (we're a prep school for govt scholarship kids) in the country has an admission rate as follows :
NU : 3 to weinberg, 6 to mccormick
cornell : 2 to non-engineering school
berkeley : 1 admit.</p>

<p>but then im int'l..this is just fyi</p>

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<p>Well yea, for internationals, Berkeley is insanely selective.</p>