<p>I hope that your daughter’s additional essay/letter helps boost her into the UHC and merit pool because it would be shortsighted of admissions to weigh so heavily on a rank that we know is pretty hard to standardize when you have schools of differing rigor. In the 2 engineering orientations I have attended, engineering stats are pretty high in relation to the overall (SAT M avg. around 710 I believe) but I didn’t know that UHC is offered in relationship to where you stand within the pool of a certain school. Would perhaps an additional email from the GC also help? Might be worth it. I think you are right in needing that UHC status to go back to them with competing offers later. Good luck!</p>