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Yeah but for example why does Dartmouth do so much better than WashU when SAT ranges aren't that far apart?
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<p>1) WashU students are more likely to go to UChicago or Northwestern or WUSTL based on self selection. </p>
<p>2) WashU students are generally not the prelaw type, at least compared to dartmouth. WashU is like a hopkins, largely premed. </p>
<p>3) This is purely a guess, but I'm guessing the cross-admit yield by dartmouth is far higher.</p>
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Come to UCLA and major in a humanities...it's almost impossible not to get a 3.7+ if you put in a little bit of work.
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<p>They have major grade inflation?</p>
<p>I don't know if they have grade inflation I'm just saying that if you come to UCLA, major in humanities (something you preff are already interested in, for me history), and come to every lecture/take good notes it's hard not to get a 3.7+. Select classes you will be interested in and a schedule that you enjoy and you're going to do well. I've been here through 2 quarters and have only had 1 class that I needed to do the reading (a 3 hour seminar where all you do is discuss books...makes sense) and all the other ones I just had to show up everyday, take good notes, and maybe read one of two 30 page articles and compare them for a take home essay. You can't sit around and never go to class, but this also isn't rocket science.</p>
<p>That "it's hard not to get a 3.7+" just caught my eyes. Usually it's more like "it's not hard to get a 3.7+" but you still need to write a pretty good paper for those case. But what you described is even easier than that. ;)</p>