Yes but you would think that the school’s class rank would align with the UC’s ranking system to some extent, especially given that this is not a private school that follows its own rules. I’ve yet to see a CA public school not take rigor into account when calculating class ranking and it sounds like a fairly decent school. Plus based on the post, it sounds like the student would have taken rigorous courses.
Right and no mention of UCSB either so I assumed it was likely that some of the latter 3 were admits but usually - and again this is from my experience - the top student in a school will get into at least 1 higher ranked UC. In this case, the ones that were listed along with UCSB. Thus I wonder if something was off with the PIQ’s or possibly there was a lack of rigor in coursework or there were many Vals etc. This just doesn’t align at all with my experience. The people I see shut out of the UCs are those that are in highly competitive schools and don’t make it into the top echelon of their school rather than those that are the top of their class.