When I looked closely at the UC admission data from last year I saw immediately that for many UC campuses the MAJORITY of students had 25+ a-g classes and the MAJORITY took 10+ AP classes. I had no idea that such specific “quantities” matter (as in, the more the better) and had a correlation to admission. When I discovered that (prior to DD’s several UC acceptances), I asked my DD to count up her a-g and APs and let me know what they were. Sure enough, she had 25+ a-g classes and 12 AP/honors classes, and right then I was kind of reassured that statistically speaking she’d likely be admitted to at least one of the 7 UC campuses she applied to. And I was also reassured when I saw data that the top 9% ELC (which she is) tend to be admitted to one or more of the UC campuses as long as they “apply widely” (which she did). But she was just lucky she isn’t a Computer Science major because I see those with her same stats rejected and waitlisted from UCs right and left.
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