<p>According to US News</p>
<p>U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign:
Acceptance Rate
-63%
High School Rank
-57% in top tenth.
-88% in top quarter.
-99% in top half.</p>
<p>U of California--Riverside:
Acceptance Rate
-79%
High School Rank
-94% in top tenth.
-100% in top quarter.
-100% in top half.</p>
<p>So why does US News rank Illinois 37th and Riverside 81? I would think, from the stats that UCR is harder and better.</p>
<p>UCR's median SAT is 1070 and UIUC's is 1230.</p>
<p>Ok than Why is UCD is ranked lower than UI?</p>
<p>acceptance rates and quality of students do not tell the entire picture of how good the ACADEMIC PROGRAM of schools are. </p>
<p>i'm not sure about UIUC, but for all the UC's, including UCR, they only accept the top 12.5% of students in california (with some exceptions like athletes). thats why you see 100% of riverside's students in are in the top quarter or top half of their class because they HAVE to be in order to get accepted.</p>
<p>Being in the top 10% in California requires the intelligence of an avocado. Since when do the students make the school anyway? UI's average SAT is more like 1280.</p>
<p>Class rank indicates nothing in essence. Kid A might be valedictorian at School A, but at School B, Kid A might not even be in the top 20%. Like Barrons said, the Average SAT at UIUC is over 200 pts higher than that of UCR.</p>