<p>All these threads make me wonder, is my school really out of the norm? I got to a public school of 400~ kids in a class and this year we had 10 MIT admits, 12 Cal Techs, 6 Yales, 3 Harvard, 5 Stanford, and 2 Princeton, albiet with overlaps. Everyone on CC emphasizes how difficult admission to Berkeley is yet we had ~40 admits this year. Before I came on CC I had the impression these schools everyone freaks out over are challenging but not that impossible to get into…</p>