Not No Cal vs So Cal. More underserved and rural communities. In-state and OOS.
The UCs share admissions by source schools.
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I thought that referred more to zip code demographics - so the readers have a bit of context of what might be available to a kid.
@Gumbymom would be the expert on that. I could be wrong, but I didnât think they used zip code demographics. They may take into account underserved or rural communities within the state.
I think #6 (Quality of your academic performance relative to the educational opportunities available in your high school) is where they glean context for what is available to an applicant.
I see similar number of applications to UCB and UCLA from DS24âs school. I suspect same group of kids are applying both schools.
I see 5-12% differences in acceptance rate every year- more acceptance from UCB over UCLA.
For what it is worth, I live in the Los Angeles area. At our HS more students applied to UCLA than Berkeley, yet more students were admitted to Berkeley than UCLA.
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I see. Thanks for the info.
@lkg4answers is correct on how the UCâs use the location of the secondary school and residence for the UC application review.
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Now that itâs here, Iâm really glad for the timing of spring break. Weâre heading out for 2 weeks of skiing ending with an admitted studentsâ day. Should provide some much needed distraction, just in time for the rest of the decisions to start coming in.
Best wishes for happy-making outcomes to you and yours!
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Have fun. Hope that you have good conditions wherever you are headed.
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At the risk of sounding too tolerant of teen ignorance, consider for a moment that this kid is probably a parrot repeating what sheâs heard at home.
A few weeks away from dear old dad and living in a dorm will fix that attitude. They arenât audioamanatronic figures. They are high school seniors.
Second of four admitted student visit days down and DC24 is making a list of 1-4. Still locked out of the FAFSA so not expecting aid. Itâs a shame they donât just tell you this instead of locking you out of the entire site, but I suppose that wouldnât be dramatic enough.
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D24 decided to accept the camp counselor job for this summer (sleep away camp) so sheâll be leaving home 2 days after her mid-June graduation. Then returning home for a week in August before we move her to college 1300 miles away. All of this begins in a little more than 3 months. Iâve been riding the emotional roller coaster between being so excited for her new chapter(s) and terribly sad anticipating her leaving, not to mention her leaving sooner than I thought she would. Sigh.
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In discussing the time change coming this weekend, I realized the next time change D24 will ( 
) be away at college. Happy Monday!
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D24 is planning to withdraw the application to her reach school this week. She was deferred. Her target school admitted her EA and is offering her everything she wants. Some have said that withdrawing an application will not help other students. I have read that it will, especially for those on a waitlist. True or not?
If there is a chance that the reach school could also offer everything your D wants, why not let it play out?
Withdrawing in RD likely wonât help others, as schools admit more students than the target size of their class according to their yield projections. I guess thereâs some slim chance that in a highly competitive major situation there could be an impact, but impossible to know (and even in highly competitive majors the school admits more students than the target size).
Withdrawing when one is waitlisted could help someone else, but again itâs impossible to know because waitlist admissions are typically based on specific qualities that a school is looking for at that point (gender, full pay, major, etc). Just to play it outâŠif one is waitlisted and then turns down a spot that was offered, the school will move on to the next person who fits the criteria they are looking for. It doesnât sound like your student is waitlisted, so this really isnât germane right now.
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I agree with Mwfan1921âmyD24 withdrew from two schools that admitted her EA and offered her significant merit. This means there is a good chance the schools can pass the merit along to someone else in regular decision. With RD apps, it doesnât seem like the benefit to some other student would be enough for you to withdraw (after all the decisions are probably mostly made anyway).
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While itâs not a one-for-one swap, there will be a cumulative effect if more students are declining their admissions early on versus what was predicted.
My Dâs friend was admitted off the waitlist in April. Obviously the school could see how their yield was trending, so they didnât wait until after May 1 (which was nice that she didnât have to lose money depositing elsewhere). Also this was at a NESCAC with a ~10% acceptance rate, not a rolling admissions.
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We withdrew from 2 schools that gave my son merit because he knew he wasnât going to attend and already had another offer which heâs close to accepting. His sole purpose to withdraw was to hopefully allow someone else to get that opportunity he was not taking.
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I often think that declining regular offers of admission wonât have a significant weight in whether the opportunity is given to another individual. With respect to merit aid that is not based on a chart of some sort (i.e. anyone with these stats gets $X), then I think that it can be helpful to decline offers that you know wonât be accepted, as that can free up funds to be given to others.
This, however, is just a sense I have based on comments Iâve heard here and in real life, but not based on any of my own experience in a college admissions office or similar.
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I agree it is not one to one, but I think it is one of those things like voting, following proper merge protocol, and so onâeven if it does not matter much on an individual level, it can matter when a lot of people do it, and part of how civilization works is doing your part in situations like that.
That said, if there is a decent chance you might actually want to take an offer depending on how things shake out, of course you can leave it open. But if you are reasonably sure you will not want it, I do think it is nice to release it (and hope many others are doing the same).
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