<p>ELC gives you 100 extra points in the UCSD criteria, I believe.</p>
<p>Some UCs, and it may vary each year, especially this year, will send letters guaranteeing admission to ELC students. This is very nice. If you get a letter guaranteeing admission to a UC that you would be happy attending, it cuts down on your applications.</p>
<p>PMK Congrats. I am very impressed. Wish I could/would do it.</p>
<p>D is my youngest and will be the last one out the door. 
I have been ramping up my volunteer activities in anticipation of her leaving the nest. I am afraid I wonât feel needed.</p>
<p>A few '10ers were very involved with the 09ers Project Graduation. It relieved them when we set up, so they could enjoy the graduation and have a celebration dinner with their grads. It was valuable to see it all in action, as I imagine I will be there helping in 2010.</p>
<p>Dâs last day is tomorrow. Then she is a Senior!!! Where did all that time go?</p>
<p>DeniseC:</p>
<p>I guess I didnât want to mention the UC admission guarantee on some campuses when a student holds ELC status, since which campuses those are vary from year to year. I read somewhere that if Berkeley or UCLA were ever on this list, it was quite awhile ago. Riverside and Merced typically are on the guaranteed list since these campuses are typically underscubscribed although, given the state of the economy, Iâm waiting to see figures for the UC campus by campus enrollment for the 2009 entering class.</p>
<p>ILoveLA:</p>
<p>My 2008 son was ELC and it made admissions essentially automatic at most of the UCs. Exceptions as I recall were </p>
<p>1) Definitely UCLA and Berkeley - both of which essentially ignore ELC
2) UCSD and UC Davis - both of which gave bonus points to ELC students in their evaluation process. Scroll to the bottom of this page [UC</a> San Diego Comprehensive Review Admission Process: Freshman Selection, Fall 2008](<a href=âhttp://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/freshmen/process.html]UCâ>http://www.ucsd.edu/prospective-students/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/freshmen/process.html) to see how UCSD does it. </p>
<p>Bottom line, DS got into all of the UCs that he applied to other than UCLA and Berkeley. I assume that he failed on the last two other because there are just a ton of really qualified applications and he was one of the good but unlucky ones.</p>
<p>Do you have to get a letter now about the ELC to qualify? DD has not gotten one (or has forgotten to show me). I am sure she would qualifyâŠScualum, did 2008 son get a letter at the end of Junior year? It would be really nice to have one less application (and fee).</p>
<p>missemily:</p>
<p>Both 2008 son and 2010 daughter got their letters in May. It does require a parentâs signature in order for the process to proceed so I would ask her. I should point out that you still have to fill out the application, pay all the fees, and fulfill all the requirements - it is just that you know the outcome for the UCs - which acts as a perfect safety assuming that your student has that UC on his or her list.</p>
<p>I want one of those ^^^^</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Well, my S got the letter from his HS this week (for us to sign for authorization to release his transcript.) However, the UC letter declaring that ELC status has been confirmed doesnât come along, according to the UC, until August or September, and that is driven by when your HS gets the forms to UC.</p>
<p>Thatâs still in plenty of time to know oneâs âsafety schoolâ status has been achieved (presuming no slip ups senior year and that all the other UC requirements, like two subject tests in different areas (until the class of 2012) have been achieved.)</p>
<p>Yes, YDS, itâs a nice letter to hold in oneâs hand come August-September this year, which is some cases is even before some rolling admits occur.)</p>
<p>Thank you all again!</p>
<p>I cannot believe how worn out I am. I thought Iâd be back on top of things by today but I fell asleep in my therapists waiting room today! I guess decompression is going to take a bit longer.</p>
<p>Bless all of you who have/are volunteering to help out with Class of '09 events. Thatâs a really nice thing to do. I didnât think of it and I wish I had. </p>
<p>S is loving his community college class and is actually showing some interest in working on his application essays this summer. Thank you, saints above! I hope everyoneâs summer is going well.</p>
<p>FAP: Thank you for that clarification - yes - what my kids got in May were letters asking for permission to release grades to the UC. </p>
<p>These letters do not mean that you have been selected - only that you are in the running. The real âyou have been selectedâ letter came in late August for my son.</p>
<p>FAP:
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<p>Based on my reading of the UC website, you donât âofficiallyâ find out about ELC until the fall of your senior year. </p>
<p><a href=âhttp://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/local_eligibility.html[/url]â>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/local_eligibility.html</a>
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<p>The website has a caculator to figure out your Statewide Eligibility. You plug in your UC GPA and your test scores and it spits out your eligiblility. If you took your SATs junior year, you could have a pretty good idea of your eligibility at about the same time either way.</p>
<p>Seems like the only time ELC might be important to someone is if they went to a school with a lot of low performing kids.</p>
<p>pugmadkate writes:
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<p>I reply:
HA HA HA. Check back with me in a couple weeks when it actually starts! Iâd say after ACT is a good day to check, then sheâll really be done and maybe we can hit the beach!</p>
<p>Itâs not summer for us yet either. Dâs not finished with school until June 25th! :P</p>
<p>School ends so late in NY. SighâŠ</p>
<p>limomof2, same here. There is about another 3 weeks left before the school year ends.</p>
<p>Yes, graduation (D '09) on June 20th, but son ('10) is not done until June 23rd.
At least they waived some the Ice Storm days we had. They missed 12 days of school.</p>
<p>Donât worry you guys with kids still in schoolâŠthe early summer crowd also comes back to school earlier. What you lose now will be regained in August.</p>
<p>Last year we moved from a âlate closingâ area to a âearly startingâ area. D lost a good 2-3 weeks of summer in the process.</p>
<p>Interestingly, even colleges seem to have a huge variation in when summer begins.</p>
<p>Wow. Did Son bring home shocking news today. It still hasnÂt sunk in. </p>
<p>He was called to GC today to discuss his senior schedule. There was a conflict between his elementary mentor period (.5 credit) and his Percussion Ensemble (1 credit). His choices were:</p>
<p>Continue Percussion for the 9th straight year
OR
Elementary mentor + creative writing or floral design or weight lifting</p>
<p>He chose mentor + writing. When he told me, I literally had to find a chair. It was news I had to take sitting down. D Â12 even let out a gasp. In all my wildest dreams I would NEVER have predicted that this kid would give up his drums. </p>
<p>There are 40 percussionists. HeÂs either #1 or #2. He loves music so much that when forced to choose blind or deaf, he chooses blind. </p>
<p>In spite of all that, he says heÂs fine with it. ÂNone of the cool kids are coming back next year, anyway. OK, fine. But, geez. Give Mom time to digest news like this. </p>
<p>I guess this is a sign. He must be serious about counseling as a career. If he can put an at-risk third grader ahead of his sticks and mallets, maybe heÂs trading a passion for a path.</p>
<p>Yes, colleges do have a huge variation to start and end dates, much to our chagrin since H starts and finishes earlier at USC than S does at his HS. Sâs last day of class is June 19while H was done more than a month earlier. It provides less time for family vacation, especially when jockeying around Hâs business trips in the summer. I made H promise not to schedule a trip during grad week.</p>
<p>Typically, those on the semester system start and end earlier than those on the quarter system. Then, there are the outlier like the D system at Dartmouth (not quite sure how that works but apparently itâs quite attractive to some students.)</p>
<p>Graduation here is the 25th, Promâs the 11th, Iâm done with finals the 18th. Lots of important Thursdays coming upâŠ</p>
<p>I was thinking about helping out with Graduation but the 25th is also my boyfriendâs graduation (he goes to a different school) as well as my motherâs birthdayâŠoh dearâŠ</p>
<p>DB- it is a sign he is moving on. Congrats to him for finding an area he really wants to dive into. He can always pick up the drums again.</p>