New Best Colleges Rankings Are Coming Soon

Cici, I don't think you know what you're talking about. Have you seen the average test scores and the acceptance rate to get into USC these days? Their test scores for incoming freshmen are higher and their acceptance rate in lower than the standards for UCLA and they closely match those of Berkeley:

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/compare_schools.jsp?

Amy of IL 10:27AM August 15, 2011

guys nothing is worth discussing here, and rank is not important as long as our citizens could get qualified education.

I think as a most creative and developed country, we should not accept that many foreign students in undergraduate. We do need to recruit these talent graduate student all over the world in graduate study. But the undergraduate should focus on our citizens first...(berkeley took 30% from outside the state this year...)

BigDSA of NY 2:32PM August 10, 2011

@California, the East Coast has definitely taken note of USC's (Southern California) rise to prominence. My high performing Prep School has recently encouraged top prospects that wish to move West to apply to USC.

I really applaud their aggressive efforts to be one of the top universities. Undoubtably, in 5 years USC will be in the Top 15, with Cornell and Brown.

Columbia Lion of CA 4:08PM August 09, 2011

As for the UCs, what I tried to agrue is not "why a top student is not accpeted by all UCs", but the rank of Berkeley itself. Maybe you are right about "tandem", but it may indicates that they already adjust the acceptance pool for each UCs for recent years, thank you for your point.

In regards of USC, they are real cases happened around me... I agree definately USC wants to take top students, but some "really poor academic performance" students were accepted in recent years too...

Jess of CA 3:15PM August 09, 2011