<p>^Link me. I'm curious now.</p>
<p>One of my best friends in LA teaches a small SAT school full of Koreans and Chinese. This year, one girl got into Harvard, 3 got into Yale, but no one got into Stanford. A "bunch" of them got into UCLA and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Hell only 2 students from all of Fresno County got into Stanford.</p>
<p>Cal/UCLA instate admissions is much easier than Stanford. The UCs also tend to focus on numbers more, and so this means the SAT class would help them into the UCs much more than it would help them into Stanford.
OOS Cal/UCLA can start to be compared to Stanford...</p>
<p>Because the quality of a school can only be assessed by the difficulty of its admissions.</p>
<p>I love the UCs but even for OOS, Stanford is still much harder to get into. The UCs are more stats based. I mean with the exception of 1000 words its all stats based. Stanford has letters of recommendation, Teacher evaluations where they evaluate the student on a variety of matters. A much more profound essay section.</p>
<p>oh well </p>
<p>Go Bruins</p>
<p>Oh and why are people trying to say that Stanford doesnt care about the rivalry. Of course they do. And on top of that a rivalry only adds for fun to the college experience. I mean UCLA wouldnt be the same without a USC to always pound on.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>At least about 17,000 of the people who applied to Berkeley for freshmen admissions in 2005 didn't apply to Stanford because about 37,000 total applied to Berkeley (17,000 more than Stanford), and I'm not sure about the transfer numbers.</p>
<p>The UCs are clearly more stats based, but I think they are less based on stats such as GPA and SAT I and II scores than you make it seem, 126230. They look at trends in grades, for instance, and AP and honor class trends, as well as descriptions of ECs, and essays are fairly important. Certainly they do not have as much of a total picture as a place that essentially (or does) require recs, but it's more qualitative and less formulaic than you make it seem.</p>
<p>this is a whole series</p>
<p>this has the infamous "peeing out the window" clip</p>
<p>"Oh and why are people trying to say that Stanford doesnt care about the rivalry. Of course they do."</p>
<p>I go to Stanford, and I say they don't. For "special fees" funding, the "Yell" leaders, who are featured at the big game, came in second-to-last out of maybe 40 groups.</p>
<p>^^haha. oh jeez, those retarded yell leaders. and i had never seen or heard of our cheerleaders until big game.</p>
<p>i really don't care about the rivalry either. it's just fun for big game and basketball games to have someone to cheer against.</p>
<p>I guess I don't really get the whole point. I am going to Berkeley this fall, and I don't have some deep resounding hatred for Stanford (I never applied there), I feel both are great schools and that if anyone gets into either they should feel extremely fortunate. </p>
<p>I guess the Big Game will be a fun rivalry, but never to the point where I chant my hatred toward Stanford, or how they are a terrible school (which their not, nor is berkeley), but hey, that's just me.</p>
<p>^i feel you, i feel you. but i will say this...on the day of big game w/ a little ethanol in me, i can't promise i won't be yelling out some crap about Cal.</p>
<p>^haha, nor can I.</p>