Sins of Admission - There's been some hubbub about what students are qualified to get in at Cal?: One student "who cared for her little brother most nights while her parents worked, wonders why high-scoring students with other options feel cheated if Berkeley rejects them." The assumption is that "they can still get into any Ivy League school" while Berkeley is her "one shot." How big of a factor should this be in the admissions consideration? High-scoring students from well-off schools are being rejected which has caused the University of California Regents to rip the report on Berkeley admissions. The question is whether admissions departments should be striving for a class with interesting experiences and different world views or whether its a laudable goal to have a freshman class of 4.0/1600 clones.