Back on picking colleges. We have kept a record of where our DS’s high school top 10 graduates where they landed in 2020 and 2021, as listed below. The 2022 graduate list would be out in May. It seems that UCs are their graduates’ most favored landing colleges. Majors are spread-out, mostly into science majors. This is probably typical in central California. Ivies or T20 are probably out of touch from most families. The UCs ($14k) and CSU’s tuition ($9k) are the most value colleges in CA, I guess.
Unless there are surprises in 22, our DS probably would follow this trend. Any feedback on this?
2020 Graduates
Rank HS GPA M/F Admitted College Major
10 4.508 M UC Irvine Biomedical Engineering
9 4.517 F UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology
8 4.5273 F UC Davis Neuro-physiology and Behavior Biology
7 4.5345 M UC Irvine Data Science
6 4.5370 F UC Davis Biomedical Engineering
5 4.5455 M UN Reno Pre-Nursing
4 4.5614 F UC Berkeley Engineering
3 4.5614 M Univ of Pacific Pre-Pharmacy
2 4.6071 F UC Davis Neuro-physiology and Behavior Biology
1 4.6545 M UCLA Biology
2021 Graduates
Rank HS GPA M/F Admitted College Major
10 4.49 F UC Irvine Computer Science
9 4.50 F UC Irvine Molecular and Cognitive Science
8 4.53 F UCLA Psychobiology
7 4.54 M UC Davis Global Disease Prevention
6 4.55 M UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology
5 4.57 M UC Davis Computer Science and Engineering
4 4.58 M UCLA Math
3 4.59 M UCLA Computer Science
2 4.60 M UCLA Comparative Literature/ English
1 4.67 M Cornell Computer Science