Originally Posted by pineapplelollie

Yup, and I agree with al6200. I lived in a crappy part of LA before-filled with a lot of people who don't care for college. I moved to a much more academically competitive school afterwards where everyone was practically college bound. Thus, I found out some people from my old school made it to some of the top UC's while some of my current classmates didn't even get into the mid-tier UC's (SD/I) when they were definitely more if not equally qualified. So basically, yeah, the UC's intention is to take the top students from all California schools. Personally, I think it's unfair, but I guess, what do you expect from a public school system?