75th% and High GPA = Free Admission?

I want to make it clear that there is no auto accept here. The only schools that may do auto accept are the large state universities and even some of them are going holistic.

There is a thread here where a young man was rejected from UF instate with top stats with the reason cited as not enough ECS. Apparently, his many ECs did not come through in his app. Upon appeal and review, he was accepted. Still, it was troubling that a Large state university with so many applications is trying to do holistic evaluations of them.

Then you remember the California system.