@19parent Sounds like Uni HS or Northwood. Must be Uni although usually Uni does not have that many Stanford bound kids.
^Actually, Uni has six Stanford admits this year.
Nice to see UCR with more accepted spots than any other UC! Fastest growing UC of them all for a reason! Already moved up 2019 US News Graduate School ranks…anxious to see Undergrad ranks coming out soon and new student stats (will be higher with a much lower student acceptance rate). Back in my day (the 80’s) I was the only one from my high school (not too far from Northwood and University High) that attended UC Riverside! Saw a listing of all colleges prospective students (a San Juan Capistrano High School) were attending in the OC Register a few days ago. Not that many UC admits…5 or so the most at any UC…Davis had the most there. About 25 admittances to University of Arizona and Arizona State University with ASU having significantly more than any other college.
For many high performing and competitive public schools in Northern CA Bay Area, depending on the year, around 18 to 25% of the seniors generally are admitted to UC’s. The top 1 to 3 or 4% usually get into UC Berkeley or UCLA and some to HYPSM or Ivies or other top 10 to 25 schools like Univ. of Chicago, Northwestern, USC, WUST, etc. Based on the graduation programs, these kids generally have weighted GPA of at least in the very high 3.9+ or if not 4.0+. GPA is not listed and one have to assume a 4.3+ for the most selective schools. For the mid-tier UC’s, a 3.9+.
The point in the previous post and # 1079 by @19parent is that even in No. CA, there are still a significant number (18 to 25%) of kids from competitive public schools getting into UC’s. UCB/UCLA is generally less since the top 1% to 4% may get in.
@19parent I would contend that 8.48% is quite average for a high school if you include UCB and UCLA, especially a “competitive one”.
Only in forum bubble high schools is 8.48% going to UCB, UCLA, and similar or more selective colleges is “quite average”.
Hopefully by the end of this week I’ll have a breakdown from my kid’s HS which is a better than average NoCal HS with a ton of NMSF kids. I think around 40 or so (out of 700) got accepted to Berkeley, not sure how many actually SIR’ed. How would you define “tippy-top”? Quite a few kids went to ranked CS/engineering programs like Northeastern, UW, UIUC, Purdue, Michigan and Maryland which may or may not be considered to be overall tippy-top.
ProfessorPlum168 tippy top was top 20 by us news, so not even UW, Michigan, and Purdue. I also think it is important that these were where each student reported that they had committed to. Since UCLA and UCB have about a 50% yield that would mean to me that about 40 or so were probably offered spots to UCB and UCLA. That is my guess at least. The results were actually encouraging to me (since my D19 falls in the top 9%, but not sure where). After reading all the threads on kids not getting into any schools, it gave me hope!
"Only in forum bubble high schools is 8.48% going to UCB, UCLA, and similar or more selective colleges is “quite average”.
Agree, if the kids are unhooked, that’s an excellent percentage for a public high school. A lot of the kids in competitive high schools are going into stem majors so will not apply to a lot of schools in the usnews top-20 that are don’t have or are not considered good in engineering and cs, (Vanderbilt, Chicago, most ivies outside of Penn and Cornell, maybe Princeton).
@19parent at my D20’s Los Angeles County public high school 2017 senior class of 430 students, 55 are attending a UC with 28 attending Berkeley or UCLA (in other words 51% enrolling at a UC are going to either UCB or UCLA). It would seem that if the kids didn’t get into a top UC they choose to not attend the 2nd and 3rd tier UCs.
Interesting enough, no one chose to attend UCI (unlike your HS) and UCSB was the most popular to apply to. The numbers below are applied, accepted, enrolled, acceptance %.
UCB 106 21 15 19.8% acceptance rate
UCLA 129 26 13 20%
UCD 94 37 4 39%
UCSD 114 37 7 32%
UCSB 139 37 9 27%
UCSC 70 36 4 51%
UCI 88 27 0. 31%
UCR 29 26 3 90%
UCM 14 11 0. 79%
Source https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-source-school
That seems pretty weird to have a such a high yield for UCB as opposed to much closer UCLA. At my kid’s HS in NoCal for 2017 the yield percentage was more than double for UCB as opposed to UCLA. Just an observation…
These numbers are too small to have any meaning, next year it could be the opposite, but on another note this last group of posters seem to be happy with the UC system.
On that website a zero actually just means less than three they don’t report if less than three students decide to go to a school because of anonymity reasons.
Our school last year (about 700 2017 students)
Berkeley 99 29 11 admit rate 29% yield 38%
LA 127 26 14 admit rate 20% yield 54%
Note that these data you’re pulling are for the class of 2016 (enrolled in UCs fall of 2017). I’ll be interested in tracking the changes over the next few years.
For this year there are only 6-8 kids going to UCSB vs the 12 from the class of 2016.
For my kids’ school (East Bay, pretty good but not top H.S.):
App/Adm/Enr/Admit Rate
UCB 77/14/5 18.1%
UCD 86/30/9 34.8%
UCI 57/19/0 33.3%
UCLA 86/13/8 15.1%
UCM 14/11/0 78.6%
UCR 17/11/3 64.7%
UCSD 83/18/0 21.6%
UCSB 110/40/12 36.3%
UCSC 69/39/7 56.5%
The data is for the class of spring 2017 enrolling in Fall 2017.
Ah, yes, you’re right. Had the fall part right but not the spring.
I find it interesting that the small higher ranking regional CA privates get so little attention or interest. For example Cal Lutheran offers top students $25000 to full tuition scholarships, a 4 year grad guarantee and very small class sizes. Profs rather than TAs teach the classes and are very accessible during office hours.Students can do research as undergrads. There is so much emphasis on the UCs that these gems are overlooked. The full price tag is high… but the grants/merit scholarships and 4 year guarantee can make it cheaper than a UC . Also noteworthy is that they will match the COA of any 1st or 2nd tier UC if an applicant has been accepted at one of those universities.
^^ a few reasons. Cal Lutheran is lower ranked than every UC but UCM. Most of the students choosing a UC like the large student body, research university, and the UC system is world renowned. D1 sports for several of the UCs. The religious affiliations scares some students away. Thousand Oaks is a great town to raise a family, not so great to attend college. Tuition is expensive if you don’t get scholarships and you have to maintain a certain GPA or your lose it.