<p>“You guys also have to take into account the whole ELC program the UC’s have.”</p>
<p>The ELC admit rate at Berkeley was 58% this past year, so not even that makes admission so easy.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/selecting/camp_profiles/camp_profiles_ucb.html</a></p>
<p>“UCs don’t practice AA, they instead focus on financial situation, AA’s alternative.”</p>
<p>No, they don’t focus on financial situation, though that’s a consideration. They focus on adversity, which goes along with the holistic process of evaluating students in context and seeing how much adversity they’ve had to overcome. This has a bit to do with financial situation, but there are many other factors.</p>
<p>“This in turn, frankly, brings in high numbers of academically poor students”</p>
<p>What? Do show me how there are “high numbers” of academically poor students. It’s saddening that people see a few examples and then judge an entire group based on that. Believe me, those “academically poor” students are very few in number, especially in comparison to the total number of undergrads (~23k). You can rest assured that almost every single one of them had a high GPA, a rigorous courseload, and top 10% status, even if they didn’t have a stellar SAT score.</p>