Interpreting "UC Freshman Application Data" and "Undergraduate Admissions Summary"

@tamagotchi Thank you for your advocacy!

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“20.0 - 49.9 courses” which overlaps with “25.0 or more courses”?

Yep, the category order and names are messed up, but the data is better… I did email the guy :wink:

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“20.0-24.9” would be consistent

Fixed! (I think…?)

The director wrote back this morning and thanked me again for my help!

Too bad our family doesn’t get some kind of credit to apply to D26’s UC application in a couple years :rofl:

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That does suggest that most UC applicants, admits, and enrollees are taking significantly more than the minimum of 15 year-long a-g courses (“less than 20.0” seems to be under 10% everywhere). This is true even for specific campuses including UCM and UCR.

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Not surprising, most have 4 years of English, 4 years of math, 4 years of history/government/econ, 4 years of science, 3-4 years of foreign language and 1 year of fine arts, which are all required/expected at our high school and totals 20-21 A-G courses before adding any electives or additional courses like Algebra 1 in 8th grade.

The only non A-G courses for most students are PE in 9th grade (most opt out in 10th grade and replace it with sports team participation) and you are required to take at least 6 classes in 9th, 10th and 11th and 5 in 12th.