Jon,
You were right about Faria not being a GATE school. I really think it used to be only GATE,but maybe I misunderstood at the time. If it's an alternative school, I'm wondering how they focus it now. They must have had some flack or something and changed it. I bet it's run the same though.

Here is a kinda older fact on DeAnza. It's from 2006 and states that it provided the second most transfers to CSU/UC systems. Orange Coast JC and De Anza College ranked for Transfers I haven't found data on specific to Stanford or Berkeley, other than knowing my daughter's friends. I do know that they are "articulated" with many state and private schools for almost all of their classes.