"The reason our budding engineer was a 2 on a 1-to-5 scale (1 being highest) has to do with Berkeley’s holistic, or comprehensive, review, an admissions policy adopted by most selective colleges and universities. In holistic review, institutions look beyond grades and scores to determine academic potential, drive and leadership abilities. Apparently, our Indian-American student needed more extracurricular activities and engineering awards to be ranked a 1.
Now consider a second engineering applicant, a Mexican-American student with a moving, well-written essay but a 3.4 G.P.A. and SATs below 1800. His school offered no A.P. He competed in track when not at his after-school job, working the fields with his parents. His score? 2.5."
LOL at Sanchez and his fucking 3.4 GPA going to berkeley engineering. Yes, it is a shithole in every sense of the word.
Date: August 15th, 2013 1:23 AM Author: Flatulent 180 lodge
Who cares? in general the work is harder and competition is greater so grades must be inflated if they are going to be comparable to other schools' grades.
Date: August 15th, 2013 2:46 AM Author: mint bespoke psychic
Probably true, but WAY easier to cop a 3.9+.
As a grad student teaching ugrads, I've run into some pretty dumb kids who are accustomed to getting some pretty nice grades they clearly don't deserve.
Date: August 15th, 2013 1:18 AM Author: jet-lagged crystalline internal respiration
i went to a shit ivy by board standards. i took a summer course at a state u near my house and they were literally using my work as model answers for the class.